ROCKETRAID 2640X4 HOST ADAPTER
The RocketRAID 2640X4 is high-performance SAS RAID solutions, delivering reliability to demanding data-intensive applications such as tiered storage environments (disk-to-disk or disk-to-disk-to-tape backup), security and surveillance, video editing, and digital content creation. Support for both SAS and SATA 3Gb/s drives on the same controller maintains configuration optimization for performance based on the characteristics of SAS and SATA drives available today.

HighPoint RAID Management
HighPoint RAID Management software offers a user friendly interface to create, manage and maintain your storage solutions. Email notification and remote are some of the advance features that the RAID Management software has to offer.

COMPREHENSIVE OS SUPPORT
HighPoint offers the broadest range of support for all major operating systems to ensure OS and hardware server compatibility. Drivers are available for all major operating systems, including Windows , Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. Linux Open Source driver help customers easily install and configure the RocketRAID 2640X4
controller.

Host Adapter Architecture

• PCI-Express x4


• 4 Internal SAS/SATA 3Gb/s Device Ports


• Up to 4 SAS/SATA Hard Drives


• NCQ (Native Command Queuing)


• Low Profile

Advance RAID Features

• 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 rebuild


• 64bit LBA support greater than 2TB 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

Array Monitors, Alerts and Indicators

• Hard Drive LED Indicators (Activity and Failed)


• Email Notification


• Alarm/Buzzer alerts for drive/array failure


• Enclosure Management support with I2C and SGPIO

RAID Management

• Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) and Online RAID Level Migration (OLRM)


• Quick and Background initialization for instant RAID configuration


• Write Back and Write Through support


• API library for customization


• CLI (Command Line Interface)


• Web GUI RAID management (local and remote monitoring)


• SHI (Drive analysis driven from S.M.A.R.T)

Operating System Support

• 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