TheĀ HighPoint RocketRAID 2782 SAS 6 GB/s PCI-E 2.0 x16 Host Bus AdapterĀ optimizes performance by aggregating multiple SAS controllers, thereby overcoming the performance bottlenecks faced by conventional Host Bus Adapters. The RocketRAID high port count SAS RAID HBA’s 32 dedicated ports deliver a connectivity bandwidth of up to 19200 MB/s.
Host Adapter Architecture
- PCI Express 2.0 x16
- Up to 24 Internal SAS/SATA HDD via 6 SFF-8087
- Up to 8 External SAS/SATA HDD via 2 SFF-8088
- RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and JDOB
Maintenance and Management Settings
- RAID Array Roaming
- Unplug/Remove RAID array
- Hot key (ctrl-h) boot-up RAID manager via BIOS
- Firmware update while running the operating system
- Verify RAID Array for Bad Sectors and Parity Check
- Task Scheduler
- Automatic RAID rebuild
- Automatic drive (insert / removal) detection
- Hot Spare Disk
- Staggered Drive Spinup
- Rebuild Priority (Low – Highest)
- Spin Down Idle Mode
- Hot Swap and Hot plug
- Bad sector repair and remapping to reduce dropped drives
- Multiple RAID array
- Multiple Logical Drive
- 64-bit LBA support greater than 2 TB per volume
RAID Management Utilities
Command Line Interface (CLI)
Web browser-base RAID management software
API
Web browser-base RAID management software
API
Operating System Support
Windows Vista, 2008, 7 (32/64-bit)
Linux 1.0
FreeBSD 1.4
Linux 1.0
FreeBSD 1.4
RAID Monitoring Tools
SMTP for Email notification
Alarm / Buzzer alerts for drive failure
SES-2 enclosure management (Failed, SMART (SHI))
Enclosure management support I2C
Hard Drive LED indicators (Activity and Failed)
SHI (Storage Health Inspector – Drive analysis from S.M.A.R.T)
Event Log
Alarm / Buzzer alerts for drive failure
SES-2 enclosure management (Failed, SMART (SHI))
Enclosure management support I2C
Hard Drive LED indicators (Activity and Failed)
SHI (Storage Health Inspector – Drive analysis from S.M.A.R.T)
Event Log