Sans Digital MS8X6 8 Bay SATA/SAS to 6G SAS Expander JBOD Enclosure - Silver 6G SAS Expander Technology - Connect 8 SAS or SATA drives with only one single SFF-8088 to 8088 Mini-.SAS cable to HBA (Host Bus Adapter) or RAID Controller. Superior Performance - With support of SATA 6G or SAS 6G hard drives and 24Gbps of data bandwidth, performance can reach over 800MB/s in read/write with one unit and 1500MB/s in read/write with two MS8X6 unit, when using with RAID controller. Staggering Spin-Up - Built-in staggering spin-up for hard drives during power up. Thus, extending the life / duty cycle of the hard drives and power supply. Support Industry Standard SGPIO - Serial General Purpose Input/Output (SGPIO) is utilized to provide the hard drives health & enclosure real-time information via the mini-SAS connection cable to the HBA (host Bus Adapter) without additional serial cable. Scalability - Supports up to 4 enclosures or up to 32 hard drives daisy-chained together for capacity expansion. Multi-purposes - Supports both SAS (Serial SCSI) and SATA hard drives to meet the requirements of different applications with different price/performance characteristics. Cost-effective SATA drives could be used for capacity orientated storage. All hardware are included - Mini-SAS cable, cooling fan, tray modules and build-in mounting rail are included. By connecting to a SAS controller and hard drives will instantly increase the storage space. Wide Range RAID Adapters Support - Compatible with Areca ARC-1880X and LSI SAS MegaRAID SAS RAID Adapters.