Expand and manage your company's storage with the Areca ARC-1883IX-24 SAS-3 / SATA III PCIe 3.0 RAID Controller Card to support demanding data center and IT applications. Its six internal SFF-8643 mini SAS connectors may be used with separately available cables to support up to twenty-four 12 Gb/s SAS-3 or 6 Gb/s SATA III drives, while an external SFF-8644 connector supports an additional four drives, all of which may be configured into different RAID modes.

Powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core RAID processor with 2GB of DDR3-1866 cache memory, this low-profile controller fits a single PCIe 3.0 x8 slot and may be used with SAS expanders to control up to 512 devices. DataBolt Bandwidth Optimizer support balances faster hosts with slower SAS or SATA devices. This controller also provides hardware-based drive encryption and decryption to secure your data. The 1883IX is designed to work with multiple platforms, including Windows, macOS, and Linux.