Highpoint Technology today announced the industry’s first SATA 6 Gbps SATA RAID host adapter, the RocketRAID 620 series. The RocketRAID 620 has a PCI-e 2.0 interface and supports RAID 0/1/5/10 and JBOD.
The SATA 6 Gbps connection provides up to 600MB/s of bandwidth and can connect up to five devices. The 620 series is backwards compatible with SATA 3.0/1.5 Gbps. The devices come with the RocketRAID web-based management suite and support every major operating system including Windows 7, Linux, and FreeBSD.
The two RocketRAID 620 series models, the 620 (MSRP $69.99) and the 622 (MSRP $79.99) will ship in mid-January 2010 and will be available through exclusive distribution channels (Bell Micro, D and H, MaLabs, and ASI).
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