Highpoint Rocket 700 Overview - HighPoint Rocket 700 Series User Manual

1. HighPoint Rocket 700 Overview

HighPoint 12G SAS Connectivity HBAs are the industry's most cost-effective SAS/SATA storage solutions. The
compact half-height PCIe 3.0 x8 HBAs can be easily integrated into any industry standard PCIe Gen3 or Gen4
platform, and are available with 8 or 16 dedicated device channels.
Massive SAS/SATA Connectivity Solutions:
The Rocket 710 & Rocket 720 12G SAS HBAs are capable of supporting up to 128 SAS or SATA hard disk drives
or SSDs.
Rocket 700 Technical Specifications
Bus Interface
Number of Channel / Port
Number of Devices
Data Transfer Rates
Port Type
Number of Devices
Bus Type
Form Factor
Dimensions
Weight
SAS Expansion
RAID Level Support
Operating System
RAID Feature Suite
Flash ROM for Upgradeable BIOS
Storage Health Inspector
Redundant RAID Configurations
BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS boot specification) support
Bootable RAID Array
UEFI support for PC Platforms
Human Interface Infrastructure Support (HII)
Multiple RAID Partitions supported
Storage Configurations Support Details (Direct Attached)
Multiple RAID Adapters supported (Up to 4 RAID controllers per system)
Online Array Roaming
Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM)
Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)
RAID Quick Initialization for fast array setup
Drive hot plug support
Global Hot Spare Disk support
Automatic and configurable RAID Rebuilding Priority
Auto resume incomplete rebuilding after power on or reboot system
Disk Format compatible: 512, 512e, 4Kn
Larger than 2 TB Drive and RAID Array support
Spin down Massive Arrays of Idle Disks support
8-lane, 8 GT/s PCI Express 3.0 Compliant
R720: 16x 12Gb/s SAS / 6Gb/s SATA Channels
R710: 8x 12Gb/s SAS / 6Gb/s SATA Channels
16x SAS/SATA Hard Drive / SSD
Up to 12Gb/s per port
SFF-8643 mini-SAS HD and SFF-8644 mini-SAS HD
16x SAS/SATA Hard Drive/SSD
PCIe 3.0 x8
Low Profile (Half-Height)
5.51"W * 2.482"H * 0.67"D
0.66 lbs
Maximum of 128 SAS/SATA HDDs/SSDs
RAID0,1,1/0 & JBOD
Windows 11,10
Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016
Microsoft Hyper-V
Linux (Support Linux Driver auto Compile)
Redhat/Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora/Proxmox (Kernel 3.10 and later)
Arch Linux (Kernel 5.17.5 and above)
Only supports 64bit operating system.
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