Introduction; About This Guide; Introducing The Rocketraid 174X Host Adapter; Product Features - HighPoint RocketRAID 174x User Manual

Introduction

About this Guide

The RocketRAID 174x SATAII Host Adapter's User's Guide provides information
about the functions and capabilities of the RR174x series of host adapter cards, and
instructions for installing, configuring and maintaining RAID arrays hosted by these
adapter.

Introducing the RocketRAID 174x Host Adapter

The HighPoint RocketRAID 174x series are 4-channel PCI to Serial ATA II RAID
controllers. The RocketRAID 174x solutions are ideal for small business home and
office servers, NAS storage, workgroup and web servers. .

Product Features

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PCI 32bit@33/66 Mhz
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2/4 internal SATA II 3Gb/s ports (variable, depends on model)
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2/4 external e.SATA 3Gb/s ports (variable, depends on model)
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Up to 4 SATA II or SATA I Hard Drives
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Support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD
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Backward compatible with RocketRAID 1640 RAID arrays
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Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
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Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) and Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM)
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Staggered drive spin up
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Hard Disk (Activity / Failed) LED chassis function
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SAF-TE Enclosure Management Functions
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BIOS Booting (INT13) to RAID array
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Quick and Background initialization for instant RAID access
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Write through and write back cache for RAID arrays
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Hot swap and hot spare
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Online array roaming
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S.M.A.R.T array monitoring for hard drive status and reliability
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64-bit LBA for RAID arrays greater than 2TB
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Low profile form factor for 1U chassis
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