The RocketRAID 2314MS offers a highly reliable and secure external connector technology by utilizing an external mini-SAS connector. The external mini-SAS connector can reach length up to 2 meters for high speed data transmission and high bandwidth applications. The external mini-SAS connection and cable and designed to replace other cable connector solutions that cannot offer the high speed data transmissions needed for enterprise, SOHO and SMB customers.

Controller Specifications

• PCI-e x4 (x8 and x16) slot compatible
• 1 External mini-SAS 3Gb/s port
• Up to 4 SATA II Hard Drives
• Port Multiplier (PM) ready up to 20 Drives
• Support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD
• Native Command Queuing (NCQ) for improved random performance
• Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) and Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM)
• Staggered drive spin up
• Hard Disk (Activity / Failed) LED chassis function
• SES2 Enclosure Management Functions
• BIOS Booting (INT13) to RAID array
• Quick and Background initialization for instant RAID access
• Write through and write back cache for RAID arrays
• Hot swap and hot spare
• Online array roaming
• Automatic detect drive to rebuild degraded RAID
• S.M.A.R.T array monitoring for hard drive status and reliability
• 64bit LBA for RAID arrays greater than 2TB
• Web browser-base software (Web GUI)
• Command Line Interface (CLI)
• SMTP email notification for events and error reporting
• Remote array management through (Web GUI, RAID GUI and CLI)
• Support Windows (XP, 2000, Server 2003, x64 Edition and Vista), Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X