HighPoint RocketRAID 3522 PCI-E (8x/16x) Mini-SAS RAID Controller

RocketRAID 3522 PCI-Express x8 Hardware RAID controller with enterprise level data protection, performance and manageability.

Dual external mini-SAS connectors for external storage , RAID 5 XOR and 6 (P+Q) with NVRAM for advance data protection and OBM (Out of Band Management to monitor storage array.

• 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
• RoHS Compliant
• VSS - Variable Sector Size (>2TB for non-GPT Windows operating systems)

• PCI-e x8 (x16 slot compatible)
• Intel IOP341 800MHz
• 256MB DDR-II SDRAM W/ECC
• 2 Mini-SAS Connectors
• Up to 8 SATA II Hard Drives
• RAID 0,1,3,5,6,10,50 and JBOD
• External eSATA (Direct Attached)
• External Multilane
• External Mini-SAS
• Mac Pro
• Power Mac G5 Dual Core
• Xserve Quad Core
• PC Platform

RAID Management

TerabyteSaver™ and TerabyteGuard™ for Data Protection and Reliability

Firmware update in the Operating System

Hot key (ctrl-h) boot-up RAID manager via BIOS

API library for customizing AP

Command Line Interface (CLI)

Web browser-base RAID management software

Disk scrubbing to prevent degraded RAID arrays on and Reliability

Bad sector repair and remapping to reduce dropped drives

ATA pass-through mode support

Operating System Support

Windows (2000, XP, x64) Microsoft WHQL 2003 and Vista (32 and 64) BIT) certified

Linux

Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard)

FreeBSD

GPL Licensed Linux Open Source Driver into Kernel 2.6.25