Microsemi 3154-8i8e 12 Gbps PCIe Gen3 SAS/SATA SmartRAID adapter comes with 8 internal and external native ports in LP/MD2 form factor. The 12 Gbps SmartRAID 3100 adapters, coupled with 12 Gbps SSDs, provide maximum read/write bandwidth and IOPS as well as acceleration and latency optimization through caching for the most performance-hungry transactional and database applications.