Built on Microchip's proven 5th generation SmartIOC 2200 storage controller, the HBA 1200-8i supports a x8 PCIe Gen 4 host interface with 8 media facing port variants for internal Tri-mode connectivity. New technologies available with the HBA 1200 family includes DirectPath, which integrates a PCIe switch for the industry's lowest latency and highest bandwidth NVMe solution and Microchip's Dynamic Channel Multiplexing (DCM) technology that aggregates expander attached SAS or SATA hard drives onto 24G SAS infrastructure with near 100% link efficiency for unparalleled through-put. Native HBA modes for all media types are also supported, which offers the lowest latency for memory-based PCIe storage.