The HPE Smart Array P816i-a SR Gen10 Controller, supporting 12 Gbs SAS and PCIe 3.0, provides enterprise-class storage performance, reliability, security and efficiency needed to address your evolving data storage needs. This controller has sixteen internal SAS lanes, allowing connection to SAS or SATA drives, supports Mixed Mode operations of RAID and HBA simultaneously, and offers encryption for data-at-rest on any drive.FeaturesIncreased performance for applications.Built-in reliability and securityImproved efficiency and storage managementPorts - Internal - 16 SAS lanes across 4 x4 Mini-SAS portsCache - 4 GB Flash-backed write cache