Eight internal SATA/SAS
ports by two SFF-8087 connectors.
Compliant with PCI Express
Specification, Revision 2.0
Low Profile PCIe Form Factor
Includes Low Profile and
regular size PCIe two Brackets
Supports main board PCI
Express 2.0 x8 and x16 host slot
Serial Attached SCSI – 2.0
(SAS-2.0) specification compliant.
Serial ATA Revision 3.0 (6
Gbps) specification compliant.
Supports auto-detection of
SAS or native SATA device.
Supports PCIe Power
Management: D0, D1, D3_cold, D3_hot.
Supports 6 Gbps, 3 Gbps &
1.5 Gbps SAS or SATA devices.
Supports SAS Multiplexing.
Supports SSC with
independent control of each PHY.
Supports wide SAS ports
Supports SAS Protocol (SSP),
initiator and target mode.
Supports SAS Management
Protocol (SMP), initiator mode.
Supports SATA Tunneling
Protocol (STP), initiator mode including: Non-zero offset and
non-sequential data delivery, ATA and ATAPI commands, Native Commands
Queuing (NCQ)
Supports Host mode and
Device mode of operation.
Hot-plug capability.
Efficiently cooling by
Active Heat Sink with Blast Fan
Drivers for 64bit /
32bit Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2008
