SA9C08-8E provides greater connectivity and maximum scalability for high-end servers and devices in internal storage 1. Support eight SAS ports and run at 12Gb/s data transfer rates per road, can reach over 1 million IOPs. 2. Support CI Express 3.0 X8 specification, Backward compatible 3. Provides SAS data transfer rates of 12Gb/s, 6 Gb/s and 3Gb/s 4. Two external MiniSAS HD High Speed Connectors (SFF-8644) 5. Use 8 external 12Gb/s SAS and SATA ports 6. Support SSD, HDD and tape drives