Highpoint RocketRAID 3220 SATA-II RAID Controller

The RocketRAID 3220 PCI-X SATA II RAID is the controller for high-performance, high-capacity solution for internal storage systems. With support for SATA 3Gb/s drives and HighPoint's proven X-Core RAID engine, the RocketRAID 3220 RAID controller is designed to meet the needs of disk-to-disk backup, NAS storage, security and surveillance, video editing, and near-line storage.

Highlights

• Intel® 80331 I/O Processor and RAID Offload Engine
• 128MB DDR SDRAM with ECC protection
• Host Bus Type PCI-X 64bit@133Mhz for fast data transfers
• 2 internal mini-SAS connectors for secure and reliable connection
• Support RAID 0, 1, 5 ,6 ,10, 50 and JBOD
• Supports up to 8 SATA II or SATA I Hard Drives at 3.0Gb/s or 1.5Gb/s
• Battery Backup Module (BBU) ready to prevent lost data
• Native Command Queuing (NCQ) for higher performance
• Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) and Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM)
• Staggered drive spin up to reduce power consumption during bootup
• (Activity / Failed) LED function to indentify drive activity and failed drive in chassis
• SAF-TE management fuctions to monitor chassis enclosure conditions
• BIOS Booting (INT13) to RAID array for greater fault tolerance
• Quick and Background initialization for instant RAID access
• Write through and write back cache for RAID arrays
• Hot swap and hot spare for data availability and automatic RAID rebuild
• Support up to 4 adapters in one system for large storage configurations
• Online array roaming
• Automatic RAID rebuild and reconstruction for degraded RAID array
• S.M.A.R.T array monitoring for hard drive status and reliability
• 64bit LBA for RAID arrays greater than 2TB
• Low profile form factor for 1U Rackmount Servers
• 3 year warranty

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