Owner's manual

Introduction
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About this Guide
The RocketRAID 2340 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 2340 Host Adapter
The HighPoint RocketRAID 2340 is a 4-Port (16 hard disk) Mini-SAS Serial ATA II RAID
controller. It utilizes a PCI-Express x8 interface. The RocketRAID 2340 solution is aimed
at enterprise storage applications, NAS storage, workgroup and web servers, video
streaming / video editing workstations, back up, and security systems.
Product Features
• PCI-Express x8
• 4-Mini-SAS connectors
• Supports up to 16 SATA or SATAII hard disk drives
• RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and JBOD
• Online Capacity Expansion and Online RAID Level Migration (OCE/ORLM)
• Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
• Hot swap and hot spare support
• SAF-TE Enclosure management ready
• Staggered drive spin-up support
• Hard disk activity and failed hard disk LED support
• Write-through and Write-back cache support
• S.M.A.R.T monitoring of hard disk status for reliability
• Automatic RAID rebuild
• BIOS booting support (INT13)
• Online array roaming
• Quick and Background initialization for quick RAID configuration
• Supports 64-bit LBA for over 4TB partition
• Web-based RAID management software
• Command Line Interface (CLI) for Linux and FreeBSD operating systems
• SMTP support for email notification
• Operating systems support for Windows, Linux and FreeBSD