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07/16/2008, 7:15pm, EDT

Wednesday, July 16th

HighPoint offers low-cost eSATA RAID solution

HighPoint Technologies on Wednesday unveiled the RocketRAID 3122 PCI-Express controller card, offering users a low-cost, performance solution for connecting eSATA hard drives to a Mac Pro. The RocketRAID 3122 requires a 1x PCI-express slot, and can use up to 10 daisy-chained drives on two external 3Gb/s eSATA ports. Users can choose between RAID levels 0 and 1. HighPoint is selling the RocketRAID 3122 for $170, available from the company or its various certified resellers.

HighPoint says the card includes a 400MHz RAID IOP engine with 128MB of DDR2 cache memory, and includes support for both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.


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Other story tags: Mac Pro, RAID, eSATA, HighPoint Technologies

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