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RocketRAID 2304 Host Adapter

Initially SATA was designed as an internal or inside-the-box interface technology, bringing improved performance and new features to internal PC or consumer storage. Creative designers quickly realized the innovative interface could reliably be expanded outside the PC, bringing the same performance and features to external storage needs instead of relying on USB or 1394 interfaces.

Controller Specifications

PCI-e x1 (x4, x8 and x16) slot compatible

4 External eSATA II ports at 3Gb/s per port

Up to 4 SATA II or SATA I Hard Drives

Support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD

Compatible with eSATA enclosures

Port Multiplier (PM) ready up to 20 Drives

Dynamic Sector Repair and Remapping

Native Command Queuing (NCQ) for improved random performance

Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) and Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM)

Staggered drive spin up

Bad Sector Repair / Remapping

BIOS Booting (INT13) to RAID array

Quick and Background initialization for instant RAID access

Write through and write back cache for RAID arrays

Hot swap and hot spare

Online array roaming

Automatic detect drive to rebuild degraded RAID

S.M.A.R.T array monitoring for hard drive status and reliability

64bit LBA for RAID arrays greater than 2TB

Web browser-base software (Web GUI)

Command Line Interface (CLI)

SMTP email notification for events and error reporting

Remote array management through (Web GUI, RAID GUI and CLI)

RoHS Compliant

Macintosh support

RAID Management Utilities

BIOS

Web based RAID

Management Software and CLI

Operating Systems

Support Windows (XP, 2000, Server 2003, x64 Edition and (32 and 64bit) Vista), Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.

Limited Warranty

3 years

Manufacturer Links:

HighPoint RocketRAID 2304 Datasheet