ATTO Technology ExpressSAS R680 8-Port External Low Profile 6Gb/s SAS/SATA to PCIe 2.0 x8 RAID Adapter

ATTO ExpressSAS R680 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Adapters add high-performance RAID protection to direct attached SAS and SATA JBOD storage. Delivering significant advancements in performance and flexibility with enterprise-class features, ExpressSAS 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID adapters provide the industry's largest ECC protected cache memory in an affordable RAID solution for general IT and media and entertainment environments. Optional CacheAssure module provides users with data protection against power loss while maintaining high performance.

• 8 external ports in a low-profile form factor
• 1GB ECC protected cache memory
• 8x PCIe 2.0 / PCIe 3.0 compatible host connection
• 9.6GB/s throughput in full-duplex mode
• SAS 2.0, SAS, SATA II, SATA connectivity
• Supports RAID Levels 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, 10 50, 60 and DVRAID, an advanced RAID level for digital video environments
• Advanced Data Streaming (ADS) Technology
• DriveAssure Technology
• CacheAssure Technology
• Adaptive Path Optimization available to provide redundancy in storage connections
• Data Recovery Mode for additional data protection
• Supports up to 256 end devices
• Windows, Windows Server, Linux and Mac OS X driver support
• Easy-to-use GUI-based configuration utility
• Thunderbolt-aware driver for Mac OS X 10.6.8 & above and Windows 10, 8.1, 8, & 7
• 3-year standard product warranty

The ExpressSAS R680 RAID adapter provides 6Gb/s SAS/SATA connectivity to Direct Attached Storage via 8 external ports. With transfer rates of up to 1200MB/s per port, the R680 is well suited for high-bandwidth workflows, such as digital content creation, streaming video and audio, transactional databases and email and Web servers. The R680 combines advanced engineering and innovative features to ensure smooth data transfers and consistent performance. Leveraging ATTO's market-tested RAID stack and exclusive latency management features, the R680 helps customers create, share and protect data and digital assets more effectively.

Advanced Data Streaming (ADS) Technology
Latency-management technology that controls the acceleration of data transfers to move large amounts of data faster and more efficiently.

DriveAssure Technology
Drive assessment and latency management technology that prevents premature drive failures to ensure uninterrupted access to data.

CacheAssure Technology
NV cache data protection module providing a maintenance-free solution that safeguards against the loss of cached data during a power or system failure.

Data Recovery Mode
Mechanism that increases the probability of fully or partially recovering data that is lost due to a disk failure and offline RAID group.