HighPoint RocketRAID 4322
3Gb/s Enterprise Class SAS RAID Host Adapter
RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50 and JBOD | Up to 8 SAS/SATA devices

The HighPoint RocketRAID 4322 is the world's fastest internal SAS RAID controller utilizing Intel IOP348 1.2GHz processor. The RocketRAID 4322 is the latest product in storage technology, leveraging the storage performance in SAS and SATA II supporting the fastest available throughput while supporting enterprise level features such as Native Command Queuing (NCQ), staggered drive spin-up and SAF-TE (I2C) and SGPIO enclosure management support.

The RocketRAID 4322 is the highest performing SATA/SAS RAID controller for Apple Mac Pro's with Snow Leopard. Drivers for the RocketRAID 4322 are incorporated into the Snow Leopard Installation DVD.

RocketRAID 4322 Highlights

• Mac OS X bootability
  
• Optional battery backup
  
• 3Gb/s (300MB/s) transfer rate
  
• NCQ (Native Command Queuing)
  
• Staggered drive spin-up support
  
• Hot swap and hot spare
  
• EFI booting on Mac Pro.
  
• 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
  
• RoHS Compliant
  
• VSS - Variable Sector Size (>2TB for non-GPT Windows operating systems)
  
• VMWare certified for ESX/ESXi 4.0

Array Monitors, Alerts and Indicators

• Hard Drive LED indicators (Activity and Failed)
  
• SMTP for Email Notification
  
• SNMP for remote management
  
• Ethernet board for OBM (Out of Band Management)
  
• NTP (Network Time Protocol)
  
• Alarm / Buzzer alert for drive / array failure
  
• Enclosure management support I2C and SGPIO
  
• Intelli-VRM™ (Intelligent Virtual RAID Management)

Advance RAID Features

• Support RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50 and JBOD
  
• Multiple RAID support
  
• Multiple logical drive support
  
• BIOS booting support (PC Only)
  
• Online array roaming
  
• Automatic drive (insert / removal) detection
  
• Automatic RAID rebuild
  
• 64bit LBA support greater than 2TB per volume
  
• S.M.A.R.T (Early Warning System)
  
• Staggered Spinup with user selection in BIOS
  
• TerabyteGuard™ for data protection and reliability
  
• Bad sector repair and remapping to reduce dropped drives
  
• (MAID) spin down drives when array is idle

HighPoint RAID Management

HighPoint RAID Management software offers a user friendly interface to create, manage and maintain your storage solutions. Email notification and remote management are some of the advance features that the RAID Management software has to offer.

The SAS Enterprise series are optimized for performance driven media applications, and are ideal for high-end PC's and workstations.

• Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) and Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM)
  
• OCE & ORLM is currently NOT supported on the Mac.
  
• Quick and Background initialization for instant RAID configuration
  
• Write Back and Write Through support
  
• API Library for customization
  
• CLI (Command Line Interface)
  
• Web GUI RAID management (local and remote monitoring)
  
• SHI (Storage Health Inspector – Drive analysis from S.M.A.R.T)