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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