| HighPoint RocketRAID-640 PCI-E SATA-6G Card Launched |
| Written by HighPoint Technologies | ||
| Tuesday, 16 February 2010 | ||
HighPoint RocketRAID-640 PCI-Express SATA 6Gb/s RAID Card LaunchedHighPoint Technologies is announcing the RocketRAID 640 series- the industry's fastest SATA 6Gb/s RAID host adapters powered by PCI-Express 2.0 x4 bus speeds. The industry's first 4 port native SATA 6Gb/s RAID host adapters allow users to upgrade to the fastest SATA hard drives and scale to higher storage capacities. The RocketRAID 640 series is the newest edition to the RocketRAID SATA 6Gb/s host adapter portfolio. This series offers 4 independent SATA 6Gb/s ports for internal or external storage connectivity. A PCI-Express 2.0 x4 bus technology and is also backward compatible with PCI-Express 1.0 for legacy systems. HighPoint hardware assisted RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD offers a balance of storage performance or protection. Turbo Charging Your System with SATA 6Gb/sThe RocketRAID 640 series delivers up to 600MB/s of throughput per SATA port boosting storage performance for legacy systems. Current systems can also maximize PCI-Express 2.0 x4 bandwidth to 2GB/s of throughput. Being backward compatible to all generations of SATA hard drives (3.0, 2.0 and 1.5) ensures that systems can smoothly transition to SATA 6Gb and fully utilize their existing cables and connectors. Performance Companion for Speedy DevicesThe highest performing SATA and SSD hard drives have performance bottlenecks due to older generation host adapters and bus technologies. The RocketRAID 640 series offers dedicated bandwidth and point-to-point connectivity making it the performance companion for speedy devices such as SATA 6Gb/s and SSD hard drives. A PCI-Express 2.0 x4 bus also provides the bandwidth needed to break through the performance barrier. Growing Your Storage As You NeedFour SATA 6Gb/s ports and support for port multiplier devices allows user to grow their storage capacities as needed. PM devices provide the most economical way to scale storage capacities. With the HighPoint RAID management utility, users can scale their storage capacities with OCE (Online Capacity Expansion) without losing their existing data investment to 20 SATA devices or up to 40TB of disk space. |
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This is false, there are currently NO SATA HDDs with an internal transfer bandwidth above 150MB/s, so no SATA HDDs are currently bandwidth limited by even first generation SATA (1,5Gbps). SSDs on the other hand are already limited by second generation SATA (3Gbps), and Micron has a 6Gbps SSD, C300, with 350MB/s read bandwidth. There has also existed PCIe SSDs for a couple of years with 700-800MB/s bandwidth, wich would be limited by the new third generation SATA (6Gbps).
What is really interresting about this RockedRAID card is support for port multiplier. If it can deliver 600MB/s bandwidth from 3-4 SATA 3Gbps units on the same port through port multiplication it gets very interresting. If it supports RAID on multiplied ports, you could RAID 8-12 SSDs for 2GB/s bandwidth.
are you still happy with it?
thanks
richard