HighPoint-RocketRAID 3500 Series

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HighPoint’s industry-leading professional RAID storage host bus adapters for Enterprise level Server and Workstation applications, provide unparalleled levels of performance and 24/7 reliability. The RocketRAID 3500 series are true hardware RAID controllers; integrating state of the art I/O processors, onboard cache and powered by HighPoint’s powerful TerabyteArchitecture technology.

Model Series Introduction

The RocketRAID 35xx series of PCI-Express hardware RAID controllers leverage the ADMA architecture in the Intel IOP341(800MHz) to deliver the industry’s leading RAID 6 performance with sustained transfer rates over 780MB/s read and over 685MB/s write.

The RocketRAID 3500’s series are available in 4, 8 ,12, and 16 port configurations and have internal mini-SAS connectors. All RocketRAID 3500 series controllers support RAID level 0,1,3,5,6,10, and JBOD.

Model Series Solution Overview

The Intel IOP341 (800MHz) is one of the industry’s highest performing RAID I/O processor engines for multi-channel SATA hardware RAID 5/6 controllers. The RocketRAID 3500 series of PCI-Express hardware RAID controllers leverage the ADMA architecture in the Intel IOP341(800MHz) to deliver the industry’s leading RAID 6 performance with sustained transfer rates over 780MB/s Read and over 685MB/s Write..

Model Series feature highlights

Intel IOP341(800MHz) RAID Engine with hardware RAID (XOR) and RAID 6 (P+Q)

780MB/s sequential reads and 689MB/s write RAID 6 performance.

PCI-Express x8 bus technology for fast data transfers

TerabyteStream™ - leverages Intel ADMA (Application DMA) Technology to deliver Hardware-Embedded Acceleration for XOR (RAID 5) and RAID 6 (P+Q).

TerabtyeSaver™ with write journaling optimizes data protection

TerabyteGuard™ with bad sector repair and remapping, disk scrubbing and (SHI) - Storage Health Inspector

RocketRAID 3500 Series

Model	RocketRAID 3540	RocketRAID 3530	RocketRAID 3522	RocketRAID 3520	RocketRAID 3510
Port Count	16	12	8	8	4
Device Interface	SATA	SATA	SATA	SATA	SATA
I/O Processor	Intel IOP341 (800MHz)	Intel IOP341 (800MHz)	Intel IOP341 (800MHz)	Intel IOP341 (800MHz)	Intel IOP341 (800MHz)
PCI Express Lanes	PCI-Express x8	PCI-Express x8	PCI-Express x8	PCI-Express x8	PCI-Express x8
RAID Levels	0,1,3,5,6,10,50 Single Disk, JBOD	0,1,3,5,6,10,50 Single Disk, JBOD	0,1,3,5,6,10,50 Single Disk, JBOD	0,1,3,5,6,10,50 Single Disk, JBOD	0,1,3,5,6,10 Single Disk, JBOD
Onboard Memory	256MB DDR-II ECC	256MB DDR-II ECC	256MB DDR-II ECC	256MB DDR II ECC	256MB DDR II
Connector Type	Internal mini-SAS	Internal mini-SAS	External mini-SAS	Internal mini-SAS	Internal mini-SAS
BBU Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Independent RAID Module	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No

Native Linux Support for the Following Linux Distribution:

Linux Distribution	RocketRAID 3510/3522/3540 Embedded into kernel 2.6.25 and up	RocketRAID 3520 Embedded into kernel 2.6.24 and up	RocketRAID 3220 and 3320 Embedded into kernel 2.6.18 and up	RocketRAID 3120 Embedded into kernel 2.6.25 and up
RHEL	From 5.2 and higher	From 5.2 and higher	From 5.2 and higher	Next Release after 5.2
CentOS	From 5.2 and higher	From 5.2 and higher	From 5.2 and higher	Next Release after 5.2
Fedora Core	From 9 and higher	From 9 and higher	From 6.0 and higher	From 9 and higher
Open SuSE	From 11.0 and higher	From 11.0 and higher	From 10.2 and higher	From 11.0 and higher
Debian	From Unstable and higher	From Testing Lenny and higher	From 4.0 and higher	From Unstable and higher
Ubuntu	From 8.10 and higher	From 8.04 and higher	From 7.04 and higher	From 8.10 and higher
Slackware	Next Release after 12.1	Next Release after 12.1	From 12.0 and higher	Next release after 12.1
Mandriva	From Cooker and higher	From 2008.1 and higher	From 2008 and higher	From Cooker and higher
Gentoo	Next Release after 2008.0	From 2008.0 and higher	From 2007.1 and higher	Next Releases after 2008.0

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