Areca ARC-1886-8I 8Ports PCIe Gen 4.0 Tri-Mode RAID Adapters, for RAID 0/1/3/5/6/10/30/50/60 Single Disk or JBOD, with 1x SFF-8654[x8] Connector

The new fourth generation ARC-1886 family offers advanced technology for increased performance and improved enterprise data protection. They were designed with 1.6 GHz dual core ROC processor, DDR4-2666 memory and PCIe 4.0 interface for the most performance-hungry database and IT applications. Based on the ARM A15 PCIe 4.0 x8 to SAS/SATA/PCIe RAID on Chip (ROC) controller, the ARC-1886 series RAID adapters can offer both PCIe Gen 4.0 host and 12Gb/s SAS/SATA/PCIe (NVMe) tri-mode storage interfaces.

• Support up to 8GB DDR4-2666 cache
• SFF-9402 compliant connector pin-out
• Support read/write cache allocation by policy
• Support up to 32 NVMe drives using PCIe switch
• UBM, SES2, SMP and SGPIO enclosure management
• Support up to (512) 12Gb/s SAS, SATA or SSD drives using SAS expanders
• Tri-mode interface at each drive ports-12Gb/s SAS/SATA/ Gen 4.0 PCIe (NVMe)
• Support optional cache backup module (CBM) protection using SuperCap
• Controller level hardware encryption and self-encryption drive management
• Support for SAS tape devices and transport layer retries (TLR) for error handling