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Tri-mode interface at each drive ports-12Gb/s SAS/SATA/ Gen 4.0 PCIe (NVMe) x8 PCIe Gen 4.0 host interface Hardware secure boot ready Universal Bay Management (UBM) management SFF-9402 compliant connector pin-out SED support for hardware encryption capable drives Redundant flash image for adapter availability Support for SAS tape devices and transport layer retries (TLR) for error handling RAID levels 0, 1 (Simple/Multi Mirroring), 10, Single Disk (Single/Dual/Triple) or JBOD Broad operating support including Windows, Linux (open source), FreeBSD (open source) and Mac





