The series 1 family of non-RAID Adaptec Unified Serial host bus adapters (HBAs) offers efficient, economical I/O with hard disk, tape & solid state drives. This flexibility allows for use in cost-sensitive tape backup solutions or high-performance SSD environments. The Adaptec 1045 has a low-profile, MD2 form factor & utilizes a x 4 PCI-Express bus & SAS interface technology to provide 3 Gb/s throughput & maximize I/O performance. Using SAS expanders, it can connect up to 128 SATA/SAS devices. The Adaptec 1045 supports Windows & Linux operating systems & 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.