RAID Cards
Explanation of a RAID card and connector
WipeOS is unique, it runs on all types of hardware and can work with a wide variety of devices. When it comes to building and maintaining your data destruction lab, WipeOS is the perfect solution. A continuously updated and modular erasure lab is a great way to keep things running at peak performance.
WipeOS makes working with a variety of devices easy. It breaks the RAID and runs well on a number of backplanes for connecting drives.
RAID Controller
A RAID card is a translation mechanism between PCI lanes from a CPU and SATA/SAS drives. They normally take 4 PCI lanes to operate. They normally have support for 8 'downstream' drives. The RAID card will have a connector or two to attach to a backplane.

Backplanes
A backplane has to have an inlet (connector) for the RAID card's cable, and an inlet (connector) for power, but most times more than 1 of each. Backplanes make apparent the difference in ATA and SAS.

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