ARECA 8-port SAS/SATA ,256MB,RAID 0,1,5,6/PCI-E x8

PCIe x4 bus
  PCI express specification, revision 1.0a
  Support SGPIO interface for ARC-1300ix-16
  BIOS PnP(plug and play) and BBS(BIOS boot specification) support
  RoHS compliant
 
  RAID Features
  3Gb/s per port
  x4 external SFF-8088 mini-SAS connectors
  x4 internal SFF-8087 min-SAS connectors
  4 x eSATA connectors for ARC-1300-4e
  Staggered spin-up, Hot Plug and Native Command Queuing (NCQ) for SATA II
  x4 Lane, 2.5 Gb/s PCIe
  Connects to SAS and SATA HDDs, tape drives, SSDs
  Address up to 128 total end-point devices via SAS expanders
 
  Management
  Areca BIOS setup utility
  Enclosure management (SES2 and SGPIO) ready
  System status indicates through global HDD activity/fault header and individual activity/fault header
 
  Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 3.0Gbps
  Serial Attached SCSI (SAS-1.1) compliant
  Supports wide port (Any combination of x1, x2, and x4)
  Supports Serial SCSI Protocol
  Supports SAS Management Protocol (SMP)
  Hot-plug capability
  Staggered Spin-up control
 
  Serial ATA 3.0Gbps
  48 bits LBA, support HDD partition larger than 137GB
  Fully compliant with Serial ATA II (3Gbps) compliant, with speed negotiation Serial ATA 1.0a (1.5Gbps) specifications revision 1.1
  Supports external SATA voltage levels
  Hot-plug capability??
  Supports Serial ATA II Port Multiplier 1.0 Specifications revision1.1
  Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
  Output swing control
 
  Operating System
  Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000: SCSIport/Storport (32-bit and x64)
  Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, and Fedora Core (32-bit and x64)
  Mac OS X 10.4.X and 10.5 Leopard (no-bootable)
  BSD/FreeBSD (will be available with 6Gb/s Host Adapter)
  Solaris 10/11 (will be available with 6Gb/s Host Adapter