Any Areca 1882 product with more than 8 native ports contains an on-board expander. Is there any benefit to this on-board expander compared to use of an off-board expander closer to the drives in a separate enclosure? Does the on-board expander connect to the on-board ROC in a much better way...
Will be taking on work that requires encryption of drives when at rest. I have to certify this and it has to be FIPS 140. Very large data files with private information. I will do de-identification and linking of one data set to many data sets using SAS. I can go the route of buying many...