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HighPoint RocketRAID 4500 PCI-Express 2.0 x8 HBA series
The RocketRAID 4500 series, HighPoint's newest class of 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID HBA's, were designed to
meet the demanding requirements of professional business and media applications, where consistent
performance, data availability and reliability of storage are paramount.
RocketRAID 4500 RAID-on-Chip HBA's are optimized for I/O intensive storage configurations. The
dedicated processor and 512MB of onboard DDR3 cache memory offloads RAID processing from the host
system, ensuring stable and high-performance data transfer. HighPoint's comprehensive storage
Management Suite delivers superior monitoring, maintenance and recovery features to secure critical
data investments against hardware failure.
HighPoint RAID Management HighPoint RAID Management software offers a user friendly interface to
create, manage and maintain your storage solutions. Email notification and remote are some of the
advance features that the RAID Management software has to offer.
1 Features and Specifications
Hardware Specifications
Marvell 88RC9580 RAID-on-Chip Processor
512MB DDR 3 Cache memory with ECC protection
Optional Battery Backup Module (HPTBBU-05)
Up to 6Gb/s per port
8 6Gb/s SAS & SATA ports
PCI Express 2.0 x8 speed
Dual Mini-SAS connectors
Alarm Buzzer
Up to 128 SATA / SAS devices via SAS Expander
SAS Expander support
Backward Compatible with HighPoint RAID HBA
Low Profile
RoHS complaint
Monitor, Alerts and LED Indicators
Hard Drive LED Indicators (Activity and Failed)
SMTP email notification for events and error reporting
Alarm/Buzzer alerts for drive/array failure
SAF-TE (I2C) and SGPIO enclosure management
Advanced RAID Features
RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, JBOD
Redundant RAID Configuration for Array availability
RAID Initialization Types - Background, Foreground and Quick
Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)
Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM)
Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
Staggered Drive Spin Up
Spin Down Idle Disk
Enhanced data protection with Write Journaling feature
NVRAM keeps tracks I/O transaction logs
S.M.A.R.T Support
Auto Rebuild on spare drive
