HighPoint 2680 PCIe SAS RAID Controller

Architecture

• PCI-Express x4 (Compatible with PCI-Express x8, x16 slot) one jumper to select X1 or X4, default on X4
• 8 Internal SAS/SATA 3Gb/s Device Ports
• Direct Connect up to 8 3Gb/s SAS or SATA Hard Drives
  Up to 256 3Gb/s SAS or SATA Hard Drives via SAS Expander
• NVRAM for write journaling
• NCQ (Native Command Queuing)
• Low Profile
• RoHS complaint

RAID Features

• Support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and JBOD
• Multiple RAID support
• Multiple Logical Drive Support
• Write Through / Write Back Support
• BIOS booting support
• BIOS PnP and BBS (BIOS boot specification)support
• Online array roaming
• Online capacity expansion (OCE) and Online RAID level migration (ORLM)
• Quick and Background initialization for instant RAID configuration
• Automatic drive insertion / removal detection and rebuild
• 64bit LBA support greater than 2TB per volume
• S.M.A.R.T monitoring hard drive stability
• Staggered Spin up

Monitors and Indicators

• Active/Failed LED
• SMTP for email notification
• Alarm/Buzzer alerts for drive failure
• SAF-TE (I2C) and SGPIO enclosure management

RAID Management

• TerabyteSaver™ and TerabyteGuard™ for data protection and reliability
• BIOS update in the Operating System
• Hot key (ctrl-h) boot-up RAID manager via BIOS
• API library for customizing AP
• Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Web browser-base RAID management software
• Disk scrubbing to prevent degraded RAID arrays
• Bad sector repair and remapping to reduce dropped drives

Operating System

• Windows (2000, XP, 2003 and Vista capable)
• Linux
• FreeBSD
• Mac OS X