HighPoint 2640x4 PCIe SAS RAID Controller

Highlights

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

Advanced 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

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

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