CEACENT CS3816-16I is a PCI Express 4.0 * 8 NVMe HBA hard disk expansion card independently developed by CEACENT based on the LSI SAS3816 main control scheme. The adapter automatically negotiates backward compatibility with previous SAS and PCI-E versions;
This HBA expansion card comes with two SFF8654 * 4-channel types, supporting up to 16 12Gb/S SAS/SATA ports or 4 24Gb/S NVMe ports;
The product serves four main target markets: wireless communication, wired infrastructure, enterprise storage, and industrial and other. CEACENT has extensive experience in storage solutions and over 20 years of independent research and development projects. It is a well-known benchmark enterprise in the field of server boards in the industry.
key characteristics
• Three mode storage interface − 12Gb/s SAS − 6Gb/s SATA − Gen 4.0 PCIe (NVMe)
• Hardware security boot
Universal Backplane Management (UBM) (SFF-TA-1005)
• 13,700 MBs (256K Seq Rd)
• 3M IOPs (4K RR)
X8 PCIe Gen 4.0 host interface - supports x8, x4, x2, x1 PCIe channels, with a transfer rate of up to 16.0 GT/s per channel, full duplex working channel and polarity reversal
Connector pin output compliant with SFF-9402
Up to 1024 SAS/SATA devices
Up to 32 NVMe devices
• Cable export with a friendly appearance
