The Series 1 family of non-RAID Adaptec SAS/SATA host bus adapters (HBAs) offers efficient, economical I/O with hard disk, tape and solid state drives. This flexibility allows for use in cost-sensitive tape backup solutions or high-performance SSD environments. 

Series 1 HBAs have a low-profile, MD2 form factor and utilizes a x4 PCI-Express bus and SAS interface technology to provide 3Gb/s throughput and maximize I/O performance.  Using SAS expanders, it can connect up to 128 SATA/SAS devices.

Series 1 support Windows and Linux operating systems and its broad compatibility with hard disk drives (HDDs), tape drives, tape libraries, tape autoloaders, SSDs, JBODS, RBODs, removable media or removable HDDs, provides a flexible, customizable solution at a low price.