HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 2-Port SATA RAID Controller

Architecture

• Hardware RAID IOP
• PCI -Express x1 (x4, x8 and x16 slot compatible)
• 128 MB of DDR II memory
• Write through and write back cache
• 2 SATA II channels at 3Gb/s per port
• Support up to 2 SATA Hard Drives
• BIOS booting support
• BIOS PnP and BBS (BIOS boot specification) support
• RoHS compliant

RAID Features

• Support RAID 0, 1 and JBOD
• Multiple Logical Drive 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 status for reliability
• VSS (Variable Sector Size) for over 2TB single volume in 32bit LBA OS
• MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks)

Monitors and Indicators

• Active/Failed LED
• SMTP for email notification
• SAF -TE (I2C) enclosure management
• Alarm / Buzzer alerts for array activity

RAID Management

• TerabyteGuard™ for Reliability
• Firmware 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
• ATA pass-through mode support

Operating System

• Windows (2000, XP, x64, Vista (32 and 64 Bit))
• Linux
• Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard)
• FreeBSD
• GPL Licensed Linux Open Source Driver into kernel 2.6