12Gb SAS 3 3U sixteen (16) hot swap bay with 12Gb SAS Expander rack chassis

RM16-S12 - Key Features

• One or two SFF-8644 multilane HD mini-SAS female connectors for host connection to your PC's PCIe controller or HBA, with the second cable providing extra bandwidth and cable redundancy
• No driver required to expand with existing SAS/SATA RAID system
• Hot-plug capable
• Built-in redundant PSU for high availability (Optional) 
• Built-in rack mount rail
• Supports S.M.A.R.T, NCQ, and OOB staggered spin-up capable drives
• System status indication through LED/LCD display, and alarm buzzer

Introducing the latest addition to our RM16 series, DAT Optic's RM16-S12 is a 12Gb/s SAS3 / SATA/SAS expander chassis, which allows existing SAS/SATA RAID to online expand the current volume without downtime. Simply plug-in with a couple of minutes of configuration time.

High Performance 
With the direct connection to existing RAID or JBOD Controller system via included two 1x lanes mini 12Gb/s SAS (SFF-8644) cable, a bandwidth of 48Gb/s, all the new drives will show up in RAID GUI ready to add to existing RAID volume or simply create a new RAID volume.

Scale-able Up to 256 Drives
The RM16-S12 chassis supports daisy-chain topology. Just simply connect another RM16-S12 or RM16-S12 to increase the number of HDDs desired. 

Here is a diagram of our SAS expansion:

For OEM or bulk quantity pricing, please contact sales@DATOptic.com.