PCIe x8 lane 2.0 bus ( x8, x4, and x1 lane widths) Up to 6Gb/s transfer rates per SAS port Support 1.5, 3.0 and 6 Gb/s SAS and SATA link rates Support a maximum 128 SAS/SATA devices using SAS ? expander Available in a low-profile form factor Low-profile bracket BIOS PnP(plug and play) and BBS(BIOS boot specification) support Legacy BIOS and EFI support RoHS compliant Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS-2.0) compliant Supports wide port (Any combination of x1, x2, and 4x) Supports Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP) Supports SAS Management Protocol (SMP) Supports Serial ATA Tunneling Protocol (STP) Hot-plug capability Staggered spin-up control Serial ATA 6Gb/s (Direct Attach Only) 6Gb/s compliant with speed negotiation to 3Gb/s and 1.5 ? Gb/s Support Native Command Queuing (NCQ) Support Port Multiplier Easy Management Legacy BIOS setup utility Supports Command Line Interface (CLI) API library for customer to write monitor utility Enclosure management for internal port via LED header and ? SES/SGPIO Enclosure management for external port via SAS expander Operating System Windows 8, server 2012, 7, 2008, Vista, 2003 and XP Linux (Red Hat and SuSE) FreeBSD Solaris 10/11 x86/x86-64 illumos x86/x86-64 Mac OS 10.4.x/10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x/10.8.x Environmental/Physical Mechanical Dimension: ARC-1320-8i/8x/4i4x: 64(H) x 167(L) mm ARC-1320ix-16: 64(H) x 214(L) mm Environmental Specifications Operating: Temperature:+5°c to +60°c Humidity: 15-80% non-condensing Storage Temperature: Temperature:-40°c to 70°c Humidity: 5-90% non-condensing Electrical Power Requirements: 0.17W max. +3.3V 5.35W max. +12V