Hot Deal - RocketRAID 4320 for $329
by Gary Key on March 20, 2009 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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We receive a lot of press releases each day for various products from a wide variety of sources. We will start providing these on a more timely basis, but one press release this week really caught our eye. HighPoint Technologies recently sent us their RocketRAID 4320 for a full review and now through a partnership with NewEgg, the cost has been reduced to $329 for a limited time. So far our testing results are very positive and we should have a review available shortly. In the meantime, here is the official press release.
"HighPoint Technologies is partnering with NewEgg.com the nationwide #2 ranking e-commerce website to offer the RocketRAID 4320 – an 8 port SAS RAID Controller with the Intel IOP348 for $329. The RocketRAID 4320 with the Intel IOP348 at 1.2GHz is the industry fastest and most reliable I/O Engine in the SAS RAID controller industry.
By offering the RocketRAID 4320 at $329 on NewEgg.com customers benefit from a 100% Savings when compared to other manufactures of 8 port SAS RAID controllers with the Intel IOP348 which are priced at $625.
HighPoint has recognized that the struggling economy has forced many businesses into offer lower costing products to entice customer spending. Offering the RocketRAID 4320 at $329 benefits the customer as they will get the highest value for their purchase with the industry’s highest performing and most robust SAS Hardware RAID controller.
The RocketAID 4320 supports the fastest bus speeds with PCI-Express x8 and offers two internal mini-SAS cable connectors that are fast, secure and clutter free. Support for a battery back up unit (BBU) maximizes data protection without sacrificing performance.
SAS scalability fulfills the ever increasing need for adding more storage capacity. Scaling to higher capacities enable customers to pay only for storage they need. Scalability is ideal for file server and content intensive storage platforms requiring the best combination of cost and capacity storage solution.
Backward compatibility to SATA hard drives fulfills the need of storage hungry applications. The lower cost and higher capacity SATA drives are ideal for back up, archiving and storing detail media files.
The higher performing 15K RPM SAS hard drives offers the highest sustained transfer rates for performance hungry applications. Streaming I/O involves digital video and requires high sustained read and write throughput. The RocketRAID 4320 with 15K RPM SAS drives can achieve 1GB/s of sustained throughput for these streaming I/O environments.
Don’t miss out on the huge savings for your storage needs. Purchase the RocketRAID 4320 for $329 exclusively through NewEgg.com."
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Madwand1 - Friday, March 20, 2009 - link
On-board RAID solutions are typically fine for simple configurations such as 2-4 drive RAID 0 or RAID 1, but often have trouble with larger arrays and RAID 5. Decent RAID 6 also needs a decent card.Some important differences you'd see:
More reliable performance. (Many but not all on-board RAID 5 are very slow for writes).
A much richer feature set, including the ability to add drives, upgrade the drives, and reconfigure the array (to some extent) in-place.
The ability to move the card and drives to a completely different system and still see the data. (On-board can typically move to similar chipset only.)
SAS, but if you're thinking SAS, you're probably not thinking on-board.
By "on-board" I mean consumer-class on-board. Some server-class on-board can have similar limitations, but server boards can also exceed some of these limits.
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Raid cards usually have better performance. On board motherboard raid is a glorified software raid, so its going to use the cpu to process raid functions.lennylim - Friday, March 20, 2009 - link
For starters, it supports SAS disks (serial attached scsi). I'm sure there are more differences when you dig farther.smith1795 - Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - link
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Hi !Can i know about Intel IOP348 controllers whats it's use?