The HighPoint RocketRAID 2640 x4 SGL 4 Channel PCI-Express x4 SAS RAID Controller is ideal for data-intensive applications such as tiered storage environments (disk-to-disk), security and surveillance, video editing and digital content creation. It supports both SAS and SATA 3 GB/s drives on the same controller that maintains configuration optimization.
The RocketRAID 2640 x4 SGL 4 Channel PCI-Express x4 SAS RAID Controller supports either 15,000 RPM SAS hard drives for performance or lower cost SATA hard drives for capacity. It also supports up to 4 SAS/SATA HDDs and SSDs in a variety of RAID and non-RAID configurations that includes single disk, JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 and all the major PC operating systems including Windows 2008/Vista, Linux distributions, Mac OS X and FreeBSD.
- PCIe x4
- 4 Internal SAS/SATA 3 GB/s Device Ports
- Up to 4 SAS/SATA Hard Drives
- Native Command Queuing
- Low Profile
- Support RAID 0, 1,5,10 and JBOD
- Multiple RAID support
- Multiple logical drive support
- BIOS booting support
- Online Array roaming
- Automatic drive (insert / remove) detection
- Automatic RAID rebuilds
- 64-bit LBA support greater than 2 TB per volume
- S.M.A.R.T (Early Warning System)
- TerabyteGuard for data protection and reliability
- Bad sector repair and remapping to reduce dropped drives
- Hard Drive LED Indicators (Activity and Failed)
- Email Notification
- Alarm/Buzzer alerts for drive/array failure
- Enclosure Management support with I2C and SGP IO
- Windows (2000, XP, x64, 2003, 2008, Vista (32 and 64) BIT)
- Linux (Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise / CentOS, SuSE)
- Mac OS X 10.4.x and above
- FreeBSD
- Linux Open Source
- Online Capacity Expansion and Online RAID Level Migration
- Quick and Background initialization for instant RAID configuration
- Write Back and Write Through support
- API library for customization
- Command Line Interface
- Web GUI RAID management (local and remote monitoring)
- SHI (Drive analysis driven from S.M.A.R.T)
- RAID Array Roaming
- Unplug/Remove RAID array
- Hot key (ctrl-h) boot-up RAID manager via BIOS
- Firmware update while running the Operating System
- Verify RAID Array for Bad Sectors and Parity Check
- Task Scheduler
- Automatic RAID Rebuild
- Automatic drive (insert / removal) detection
- Hot Spare Disk
- Staggered Drive Spin-up
- Rebuild Priority (Low - Highest)
- Spin Down Idle Mode
- Hot Swap and Hot Plug
- Bad sector repair and remapping to reduce dropped drives
- Multiple RAID Array
- Multiple Logical Drive
- 64-bit LBA support greater than 2 TB per volume
- SMTP for Email notification
- Alarm / Buzzer alerts for drive failure
- SES-2 enclosure management (Failed, SMART (SHI))
- Enclosure management support I2C
- Hard Drive LED indicators (Activity and Failed)
- Storage Health Inspector – Drive analysis from S.M.A.R.T
- Event Log
- Command Line Interface
- Web browser-base RAID management software
- API