Designed to maximize the uptime and accessibility of RAID storage, the RocketRAID 3742A PCIe Host Bus Adapter from HighPoint fits into a PCIe 3.0 x8 slot on your host Windows, Mac, or Linux system using an included low-profile bracket. It is equipped with two internal SFF-8643 and two external SFF-8644 mini-SAS ports, supporting a total of sixteen SAS-3 12 Gb/s or SATA III 6 Gb/s channels, which may be used for Enterprise and NAS drives. The RocketRAID 3742A also supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and 50, each of which provides performance, data redundancy, or a combination of both. For those who do not require a RAID, JBOD is available. To better monitor the health of your RAID configuration, HighPoint's RocketRAID WebGUI interface provides a wide range of preemptive monitoring and maintenance features.
It is also possible to expand or convert RAID storage configurations as needed with Online Capacity Expansion (OCE), which allows admins to add new drives to existing arrays. Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM) allows admins to convert one RAID level to another in order to tune storage configurations for improved performance or data security. Please note that bootable RAID 6 arrays are not supported and RAID 6 is not supported on Mac. This controller may be used with the RS6418S and RS6414S JBOD tower enclosures via 8644-8088-1M1 SFF8644 to SFF-8088 cables.
- PCIe 3.0 x8 Interface
- 2 x Internal SFF-8643 Mini-SAS Ports
- 2 x External SFF-8644 Mini-SAS Ports
- 16 x SAS-3 / SATA III Channels
HighPoint 3742A Overview
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HighPoint 3742A Reviews
Works great with OWC ThunderBay Flex 8!
Initially purchased the Flex 8 enclosure only - no drives. Therefore it had no RAID card installed. After installing drives over time I found OWC’s SoftRAID to be limited in my use-case & somewhat bottlenecked by being a software RAID solution. B&H was kind enough to point me to this RocketRAID card and it works great! Much more dependable as I’m no longer having issues found with SoftRAID. Overall this RAID card provides noticeably consistent, sustained higher speeds in data transfers. I use a range of Macs - old & new & have not connected this to a Windows machine. My only nitpick is the compatibility with older MacOS (getting into my specific use-case of lots of data fed into old, irreplaceable, no longer updated software on old Mac hardware) - it’s slightly deceiving that this card is rated as compatible with these older OSes for direct connections as I’ve had to “bridge” connections via docks, file-sharing from another Mac, etc, etc, as workarounds for dependability. But if you have a modern Mac (I’m sure it works great on Windows, too), this card should have no issues in a Flex 8!