HighPoint Announces SATA 6Gbps Host Adapter Series

Category: Storage / Hard Drives
Posted: October 29, 2009 06:22PM
Author: jammin

We should be seeing more and more SATA III (or 6Gbps) enabled products start popping up over the coming months, with the standard likely to be most useful for solid state drives as speeds continue to increase. Highpoint is well known for its RocketRAID line of controller cards and has just added the Rocket 600 series of PCI Express 2.0 based cards to its product lineup.

The Rocket 620 and 622 provide two SATA (620) or eSATA ports (622) and are fully ACHI compliant, so you should be able to drop them into most Windows, Linux or Mac OS X based systems without having to worry about drivers. They are also backwards compatible with SATA I and II interface drives. Both should be available at the end of the month for MSRPs of $69.99 and $79.99 respectively.