Owner manual

Introduction
About this Guide
The RocketRAID 2322 SATAII Host Adapter’s User’s Guide provides information
about the functions and capabilities of the host adapter, and instructions for
installing, configuring and maintaining RAID arrays hosted by the adapter.
Introducing the RocketRAID 2322 Host Adapter
The HighPoint RocketRAID 2322 is a dual-port external Mini-SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)
PCI-Express to Serial ATA II RAID controller. The RocketRAID 2322 solution is aimed at
enterprise storage applications, NAS storage, workgroup and web servers, video stream-
ing / video editing workstations, back up, and security systems.
Product Features
• PCI-Express x4 bus compatible to PCI-Express x8 and x16
• Two external Mini-SAS connectors
• Compatible with HighPoint (X4 and X8) external drive enclosures
• 8 External SATA II ports
• Up to 3Gb/s transfer rates
• RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and JBOD
• Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
• Staggered drive spin-up
• Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) and Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM)
• Hot Swap and Hot Spare
• Quick and Background initialization for quick RAID configuration
• SAF-TE Enclosure management ready
• S.M.A.R.T monitoring hard drive status for reliability
• Hard Drive activity and failed LED support
• Automatic RAID rebuild
• BIOS booting support
• Online array roaming
• Support 64-bit LBA for over 2TB partition
• Browser-based RAID management software
• Command Line Interface (CLI)
• SMTP support for email notification
• Power Mac G5 support
• Operating Systems support for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X
1-1