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1. HighPoint RocketRAID 3700 Overview
RocketRAID 3700 series host bus adapters are the world’s most price competitive 12G SAS/SATA RAID controllers, and deliver
unprecedented end-to-end Generation 3.0 PCI Express transfer performance with Professional class RAID Storage reliability and
management capabilities.
RocketRAID 3700 series host bus adapters capitalize on HighPoint’s two decades of RAID and storage technology to deliver
professional grade RAID storage at a fraction of the cost of conventional host RAID solutions. Each adapter is powered by our
industry proven RAID technology, superior Gen 3.0 PCIe express transfer bandwidth, and up to sixteen dedicated 12Gb/s SAS
channels, which support robust, high-performance RAID 0, 1, 5 ,6, 10, 50 and JBOD configurations of SAS or SATA hard drives of
any disk format, including 512, 512e and 4Kn.
RocketRAID 3700 Technical Specifications
8-lane, 8 GT/s PCI Express 3.0 Compliant
16x 12Gb/s SAS / 6Gb/s SATA Channels
SFF-8643 mini-SAS HD and SFF-8644 mini-SAS HD
16x SAS/SATA Hard Drive/SSD
0,1,5,6, 1/0,5/0 and JBOD / Non-RAID Mode
RAID 6 is not supported on macOS
Bootable RAID 6 arrays are not supported
RAID 1/0 is equivalent of RAID 10. RAID 5/0 is equivalent of RAID 5/0
Windows 7 and later
Windows Server 2008 and later
Linux (Support Linux Driver auto Compile)
macOS
FreeBSD
Flash ROM for Upgradeable BIOS
Redundant RAID Configurations
BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS boot specification) support
Multiple RAID Partitions supported
Storage Configurations Support Details
Multiple RAID Adapters supported
Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM)
Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)
RAID Quick Initialization for fast array setup
Global Hot Spare Disk support
Automatic and configurable RAID Rebuilding Priority
Auto resume incomplete rebuilding after power on or reboot system
Disk Format compatible: 512, 512e, 4Kn
Larger than 2 TB Drive and RAID Array support
Spin down Massive Arrays of Idle Disks support
Disk media scan and repair
Device Error Recovery support
Automatic remap and fix drive bad block for RAID array
Write Back and Write Through