The 440 internal HBAs have the following features and specifications:

PCIe 4.0 x8 host interface
12 Gbps SAS/SATA host bus adapter, based on the Broadcom SAS3816 IOC design
Custom form-factor, designed to not consume a standard PCIe slot
16x 12 Gbps SAS/SATA ports for connectivity to 16 internal drives
Up to 12 Gbps throughput per port
Supports 12, 6, or 3 Gbps SAS speeds
Supports 6 or 3 Gbps SATA speeds
Four internal x4 HD Mini-SAS connectors (SFF-8643)
Non-RAID (JBOD mode) support for SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs (RAID not supported)
Support internal SAS tape drives
Optimized for SSD performance
High performance architecture with very deep queue depth
Advanced power management support
Support for SSP, SMP, STP, and SATA protocols
End-to-End CRC with Advanced Error Reporting
Spread Spectrum Clocking for EMI reductions
Supports 512e, 512n and 4K (when available) formatted drives
Compliant with Disk Data Format (DDF) configuration on disk (CoD).
S.M.A.R.T. support.
Configuration through
XClarity Provisioning Manager UEFI interface
XClarity Controller web interface
XClarity Administrator Configuration Patterns
StorCLI command-line interface
LSI Storage Authority (LSA) GUI interface
UEFI Human Interface Infrastructure (HII)



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