The RocketRAID 644LS PCIe 2.0 x4 Host Bus Adapter from HighPoint provides your Windows or Linux computer with a mini-SAS port that can be use to connect to an external SAS-capable storage unit. It features four SATA channels to support the drives in your unit, and each SATA channel is able to deliver 6 Gb/s speeds. The low-profile adapter occupies an available PCIe 2.0 x4 slot inside your desktop and comes with a RAID management suite. You can use this suite to configure the drives in the storage unit in a RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, or JBOD mode. Additionally, it has alarm/buzzer notifications.
Hardware
- Four SATA channels
- Up to 6 Gb/s per channel
- PCI-Express 2.0 x4/x1
- Industry standard mini-SAS connector
- Alarm buzzer support
- Directly supports 4 SATA devices / up to 20 with an optional port multiplier enclosure
- Backward compatible with HighPoint SATA RAID Host adapters
- Low-profile form factor
Monitoring and Management Support
- Supports SMTP
- Supports event log
Configuration Management Suites
- BIOS configuration tool
- Browser-based management interface
- CLI (Command Line Interface) for Linux
Advanced RAID
- RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, JBOD
- Redundant RAID configuration for array availability
- RAID initialization types - background, foreground, and quick
- OCE (Online Capacity Expansion)
- ORLM (Online RAID Level Migration)
- NCQ (Native Command Queuing)
- Staggered drive spin up
- Spin down idle disk
- S.M.A.R.T support
- Auto rebuild on spare drive
- Hot-plug and hot-swap support
- Larger than 2TB drive support
- Bootable RAID array support
- Write back or write through cache support