RocketRAID 2684

RocketRAID 2684 Host Adapter

The RocketRAID 2600 PCI-E SAS RAID series offer cost effective SAS connectivity plus RAID 5 functionality, with support for internal and external storage configurations. The new SAS RAID controller series will infuse systems with a new level of flexibility, performance and reliability at an affordable price.

Flexibility of SAS/SATA

The RocketRAID 2684 offers the flexibility to be able to support either 15,000 rpm SAS hard drives for performance or low cost SATA hard drives for capacity. The ability to deploy either type of drives allows the computer system to be optimzed for specific application and cost requirements.

Disks with SAS interfaces are designed to meet the performance and reliability characteristics required for RAID systems. SAS drives retain all of the reliability and performance advantages of traditional SCSI and while elminating the weaknesses of the parallel interface.

RocketRAID 2684 Highlights

• Small Form Factor
• Support RAID 0,1,5,10 and JBOD
• Support SATA and SAS Hard Drives
• TerabyteGuard for data protection and reliability
• Internal Mini-SAS
• External eSATA (Direct Attached)
• External Multilane
• Internal SATA
• External Mini-SAS
• For use in:
  • Mac Pro
  • Power Mac G5 Dual Core
  • PC Platform

Controller Specifications

• SAS/SATA
• 3Gb/s (300MB/s) transfer rate
• NCQ (Native Command Queuing)
• Staggered drive spin-up support
• Hot swap and hot spare
• Bad Sector Reallocation and Remapping
• Write-through and write-back cache support
• Quick and Background initialization for quick RAID configuration
• Online array roaming
• 64bit LBA for over 2TB support
• Automatic RAID rebuild of failed drive
• S.M.A.R.T drive monitoring for status and reliability
• Browser-based RAID management software
• SMTP for email notification

RAID Management Utilities

• Web GUI management utility
• CLI (Command Line Inteface)
• BIOS Management
• Alerts & Indicators
  • SMTP (Email Notification)
  • (Hard drive activity and failure) LED
  • SAF-TE chassis environment monitoring

Operating Systems

• Mac OS X 10.4.8 - 10.5.x
• Microsoft® Windows® 2008/2003/XP/2000, Vista 32 and 64 bit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Open SuSE, Fedora Core, Debian
• FreeBSD
• Linux Open Source Drivers

Limited Warranty

• 3 Year Manufacturer Warranty

Data Sheet

Package Contents

• RocketRAID 2684 SAS RAID Controller
• RocketRAID SAS user manaual
• Low profile bracket
• Software CD with (Drivers and Manual)
• Cables (Point to point) and internal mini-SAS