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hardnrg - January 24, 2008Lowest Prices
Specifications:
RocketRAID 1740
| Host Side Interface | PCI@33/66MHz |
| Device Interface | SATA I or SATA II |
| Number of Channels | 4 SATA Channels |
| Supported RAID Levels | RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD |
| Operating Systems Support | Windows, Linux and FreeBSD |
| RAID Management Tool | BIOS Web based RAID Management Software and CLI |
RocketRAID 2300
| Host Side Interface | PCI-Express x1 (x4, x8 and x16 slot compatible) |
| Device Interface | Serial ATA |
| Number of Channels | 4 Device Channels |
| Allowed Disk Connection | Four (SATA II or SATA I Hard Disks) |
| Supported RAID Levels | RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD |
| Operating Systems Support | Windows, Windows x64 Editions, Linux (open source), FreeBSD (open source) and Mac OS X |
| RAID Management Tool | BIOS Browser-based RAID Management CLI |
Features
RocketRAID 1740
- PCI 32bit@33/66 MHz
- 4 SATA II 3Gb/s ports
- Up to 4 SATA II or SATA I Hard Drives
- Support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD
- Backward compatible to RocketRAID 1640 RAID arrays
- Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
- Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) and Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM)
- Staggered drive spin up
- Hard Disk (Activity / Failed) LED chassis function
- SAF-TE Enclosure Management Functions
- BIOS Booting (INT13) to RAID array
- Quick and Background initialization for instant RAID access
- Write through and write back cache for RAID arrays
- Hot swap and hot spare
- Online array roaming
- Automatic detect drive to rebuild degraded RAID
- S.M.A.R.T array monitoring for hard drive status and reliability
- 64bit LBA for RAID arrays greater than 2TB
- Low profile form factor for 1U chassis
- Web browser-base software (Web GUI)
- Command Line Interface (CLI)
- SMTP email notification for events and error reporting
- Remote array management through (Web GUI, RAID GUI and CLI)
- Support Windows (XP, 2000, Server 2003), Linux and FreeBSD
- RoHS Compliant
RocketRAID 2300
- PCI Express x1 (x4, x8 and x16 slot compatible)
- SATA II and SATA I hard drive support
- Up to 300MB/s for each SATA II drive port
- Support RAID level 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD
- Online Capacity Expansion and Online RAID Level Migration (OCE/ORLM)
- Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
- SAF-TE enclosure management
- Hard drive activity and Failed LED support
- Staggered drive spin-up support
- Hot swap and hot spare
- Write-through and write-back cache support
- Quick and Background initialization for quick RAID configuration
- Online array roaming
- BIOS booting support (INT13)
- 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
- Command Line Interface (CLI)
- SMTP for email notification
- Operating system support for Windows, Windows x64 Editions,
- Mac OS X, Linux (open source) and FreeBSD (open source)
