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HighPoint Launches Industry's 1st PCI-E 2.0 x16 SATA Port Multiplier HBA Series

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HighPoint Technologies announces an exciting update to the RocketRAID 2700 SATA Host Adapter Series with support for Port Multiplier (PM) storage enclosures. This is the industry's first PCI-E 2.0 x16 SATA Host Adapter to support PM enclosures. The RocketRAID 2700 SATA PM Series is designed for customers who place a premium on storage expansion and performance but demand affordability.



SAS Expander Alternative - Simple Connectivity, Cost Advantage and Comparable Performance
Digital media such as photos, music and HD video along with storage intensive program have driven many consumers and enthusiasts need to upgrade their storage capacities. Enterprise and SMBs typically use SAS expander solutions since it offer them the ability to scale their storage capacities while maintaining performance. An alternative solution to SAS expanders are with SATA PM (Port Multipliers). SATA PM can also scale storage capacities but at a huge cost advantage. SATA PM also offers simplified connectivity with performance that is comparable to SAS expanders.

The RocketRAID 2700 SATA PM series can scale storage capacities up to a maximum of 64 storage devices and 192TB. Performance will be comparable to SAS expander solution while the TOC (Total Cost of Ownership) will be 67% less than SAS expander solution.

RocketRAID 2700 Series Introduction
The RocketRAID 2700 PM Series are available with 4, 8 and 16 ports. The RocketRAID 2744 (16 port) utilizes the fastest bus technology at PCI-E Gen 2.0 x16 to deliver up to 8 GB/s of performance bandwidth. The RocketRAID 2722 (8 port) and RocketRAID 2721 (4 port) are PCI-e Gen 2.0 x8. Support for RAID delivers enhanced storage performance and increases data protection from single drive failures.

Users can also expand their storage investments seamlessly by utilizing OCE (Online Capacity Expansion). Storage can be added and introduced into the system through the HighPoint RAID management utility without the requirement to take down the storage or reconfigure the storage. Disk arrays can be upgraded without impacting existing applications by using the benefits of OCE technique. This will dramatically improve the uptime and availability of applications running storage.

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these are starting to look more and more like GPUs with those heatsinks lol
 
I do hope a review of these on TPU.
 
I have a 4000 series HP controller in a server at work (8 port, 4 x RAID1)
Works just fine so far.
 
hooray for port multipliers, they really shoulda been required in the SATA specs and not optional
 
hooray for port multipliers, they really shoulda been required in the SATA specs and not optional

I agree. I hate that my ICH10R doesn't support them. My server would be so much happier if it did.
 
Agree that it should be required my htpc would be excited with more than 5 sata ports :/

And that has a bigger hs on it than most low end vga cards lol
 
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