Product highlights:
PCI-e x4 (x8 and x16 slot compatible)
8 Channel PCI-e x4 to SATA II RAID Controller
Dual External Mini-SAS Connectors
Support up to 8 SATA II and SATA I Hard Drives in DS-1240 system (two controllers needed for all 12 drives)
RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and JBOD
Support Windows, Winx64, Windows Vista, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X
Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
Dynamic Sector Repair and Remapping
Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) and Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM)
Single RAID Cross Adapter
Hot Swap and Hot Spare
Quick and Background initialization for quick RAID configuration
SAF-TE Enclosure management ready
S.M.A.R.T monitoring hard drive status for reliability
Hard Drive activity and failed LED support
Automatic RAID rebuild
BIOS booting support
Online array roaming
Support 64-bit LBA for over 2TB partition
Browser-based RAID management software
Command Line Interface (CLI)
SMTP support for email notification
Power Mac G5 support
Compatible systems:
DS-1240
Note: Two SFF-8088 to SFF-8470 Cables are needed to connect eight drivers to DS-1240