Designed to maximize the uptime and accessibility of RAID storage, the RocketRAID 2840C PCIe Host Bus Adapter from HighPoint fits into a PCIe 3.0 x8 slot on your host Windows, Mac, Linux, or FreeBSD system using an included low-profile bracket. It is equipped with four internal SFF-8643 mini-SAS ports that support up to sixteen SAS-2 6 Gb/s or SATA III 6 Gb/s channels, which may be used for Enterprise and NAS drives. The RocketRAID 2840C also supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and 50, each of which provides performance, data redundancy, or a combination of both. For those who do not require a RAID, JBOD is available. To better monitor the health of your RAID configuration, HighPoint’s RocketRAID WebGUI interface provides a wide range of preemptive monitoring and maintenance features.
It is also possible to expand or convert RAID storage configurations as needed with Online Capacity Expansion (OCE), which allows admins to add new drives to existing arrays. Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM) allows admins to convert one RAID level to another in order to tune storage configurations for improved performance or data security.
Please note that bootable RAID 6 arrays are not supported and RAID 6 is not supported on Mac.
