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April 13, 2007
RAID 5 SATA Port Multiplier Host Adapter
A Review of the HighPoint RocketRAID 2314 External 4 Port PCIe SATA II RAID Controller
HighPoint Technologies Inc. is shipping the RocketRAID 2314 external four lane PCI-Express SATA II RAID Controller ($200). The four ports provided by the RocketRAID 2314 SATA host adapter can support external SATA direct connect or SATA port multiplier enclosures. Apple Mac Pro users can utilize Disk Utility to create striped RAID sets or utilize the HighPoint web based RAID management software to create RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and JBOD configurations with the RocketRAID 2314. The purpose of this review is to determine how the HighPoint RocketRAID 2314 will perform with an Apple Mac Pro.
System Requirements
Requires an empty PCI Express slot.
Supports Mac OS X 10.4.8 or higher, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.
Supports up to 20 external SATA hard drives.
PCI Express X4, compatible with X8 and X16 Interface.
Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and JBOD.
SMTP support for email notification.
The HighPoint Technologies RocketRAID 2314 PCIe SATA host adapter provides Mac Pro users with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and JBOD support for both direct connect and SATA PM enclosures. While SATA PM enclosures may be a little slower than a direct connect enclosure, they can support 5x more hard
drives. The draw back to RAID 10 has always been the fact that I never had enough ports to produce high performance. With the new found ability to connect 20 hard drives to the RocketRAID 2314, RAID 10 not only provides the highest crash protection but also extremely high performance. The RocketRAID 2314 opens up the very cool feature of adding redundancy to our SATA PM setups. With a price under $200, the RocketRAID 2314 provides a compelling feature rich SATA host adapter for Mac Pro users interested in expanding their external storage options.JOIN AMUG!
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Contact Information:
HighPoint Technologies Inc.
1161 Cadillac Court
Milpitas, CA 95035
Phone: (408) 942-5800
Fax: (408) 942-5801
http://www.highpoint-tech.com
Copyright 2007
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(Article updated 8-26-07 using HighPoint 2.11 Mac Driver)
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