HighPoint’s Rocket 7528D PCIe Gen4 x16 NVMe RAID Adapter is a direct replacement for the SSD7580B and SSD7580C. Like it’s predecessors, the Rocket 7528D’s four SlimSAS SFF-8654 -ports can directly host up to 8 U.2 or U.3 NVMe SSDs in RAID 0 1 and 10 configurations via a range of cabling solutions. However, the product utilizes our second-generation PCIe Gen4 Switching architecture and sports a range of new features, such as an industry standard LP-MD2 form factor, customizable firmware, UBM and VPP backplane support, FRU compliance (field replacement unit), OPAL SED support, and a suite of integrated hardware sensors designed to actively monitor and record the operational status of the hosted NVMe media and Switch Chipset.

The SSD7580B is the industry’s first 8-Channel PCIe Gen4 U.2 NVMe RAID Adapter to feature true Hot-Plug and Hot-Swap capability. The dedicated PCIe 4.0 x16 host interface and 8 independent device channels are capable of supporting over 100TB of NVMe storage, at speeds up to 28,000MB/s! The compact, half-height form factor can be easily installed into nearly any industry standard PC-based server, workstation and rackmount platform running Windows and Linux based operating systems.

The SSD7580’s integrated Hot-Plug and Hot-Swap support enable customers to add or remove one or more SSDs on the fly, as necessity demands. This includes RAID and single-disk configurations. The AIC reserves dedicated resources for each NVMe device channel at bootup, and will notify the host OS of any subsequent changes in real time – no reboot required!

A wide selection of Flexible Cabling Options is available for the SSD7580B, which enable the controller to host both RAID, non-RAID, and mixed configurations of NVMe SSDs, via SFF-8654, SFF-8643, SFF-8611 OCuLink and MCIO 8i connectivity.