Great affordable RAID card!, (What's this?) Installed this card in a new Win 7/64 PC I built and it works great. Installation was very easy and went smooth. Rather then run 2 or 3 independent HDDs for data and media storage, which I had on my Win XP machine before this one, I wanted to run a RAID 1 setup this time so all my files would be automatically backed up. This card does the trick, and the price is very reasonable and affordable. I now have two Hitachi Deskstar 2 TB 3.5-Inch CoolSpin RPM SATA III 6Gbps 32 MB Cache Internal Hard Drive 0F12117 for 2 TB of mirrored (RAID 1) storage. Plenty of room to store my large collection of photos and mp3 files. Setup was fairly simple using the WebGUI from HighPoint, and Win 7 sees the RAID array as a single 2 TB drive. Perfect! I never needed to go into the BIOS of the motherboard or Rocket RAID card. I would highly recommend this card to anyone looking for an affordable RAID solution to install inside a PC.
Not compatible with my hardware, I tried to use this with an Intel X-25M G2 160GB SSD, but with it attached, it enumerated the SSD in the RocketRAID BIOS, but then the system did not boot (frozen on black screen). If I boot first, then attach the drive, it works, but that's not very useful. I updated the BIOS via the web management tool, but that didn't help. I tried to contact Highpoint support, but their phone number is only voice mail, and their e-mail is also not responsive.
I also noticed that it would not enumerate my BDROM drive. Not critical, but why not?
I do like that it comes with a low-profile bracket.
WOrked fine with Windows 7 and Gigabyte MoBo, (What's this?) Upgraded to Win 7 and the onboard RAID controller of my Gigabyte MoBo would only work with Win 7's software mirroring.
2 SATA ports 6Gb/s (600MB/s) data transfer rate Major OS support includes Windows, Linux, Free BSD PCI-Express 2.0 x1 RAID level 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD
2 SATA ports.6Gb/s (600MB/s) data transfer rate.Major OS support includes Windows, Linux, Free BSD.PCI-Express 2.0 x1.RAID level 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD. The RocketRAID 62x offers the next genera on ofSATA and eSATA 6Gb/s conne vity support to portmu plier enclosures for a maximum of 10 SATA devices.