Audible manual About this Guide, Introducing the RocketRAID 2220 Host Adapter, Product Features

About this Guide

The RocketRAID 2220 SATA II Host Adapter’s User’s Guide provides information about the functions and capabilities of the host adapter, and instructions for installing, configuring and maintaining RAID arrays hosted by the adapter.

Introducing the RocketRAID 2220 Host Adapter

The HighPoint RocketRAID 2220 is an 8-channel Serial ATA II RAID controller. It utilizes a 64bit, 133MHz PCI-X interface . The RocketRAID 2220 solution is aimed at enterprise storage applications, NAS storage, workgroup and web servers, video streaming / video editing workstations, back up, and security systems.

Product Features

Ÿ8 Channels PCI-X to SATAII host adapter

ŸSupports up to 8 SATA/SATAII hard disk drives

ŸPCI-X 64-bit, 66/100/133MHz PCI bus

Ÿ64-bit LBA support for drive capacity over 2TB

ŸSupports RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD

ŸSingle RAID cross -adapter (up to 16 disks per array)

ŸSupports Native Command Queuing (NCQ)

ŸOnline Capacity Expansion (OCE)

ŸOnline RAID Level Migration (ORLM)

ŸStaggered drive spin -up support

ŸS.M.A.R.T. monitoring of hard disk status for reliability

ŸSAF-TE Enclosure management

ŸHot Swap and Hot Spare support

ŸAudible alarm

ŸLED support (disk activity and disk failure status)

ŸQuick and Background initialization for quick RAID configuration

ŸBIOS boot support

ŸCommand Line Interface for RAID management (CLI)

ŸGraphical RAID Management Software (RAID Management Console)

ŸAutomatic RAID rebuild

ŸSMTP support for email notification

ŸWindows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Linux and FreeBSD support

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