HighPoint Partnering With NewEgg.com to Offer the SAS/SATA RocketRAID 4320

HighPoint Technologies is partnering with NewEgg.com, the nationwide #2 ranking e-commerce website, to offer the RocketRAID 4320 – an 8 port SAS RAID Controller with the Intel IOP348 for $329. The RocketRAID 4320 with the Intel IOP348 at 1.2GHz is the industry fastest and most reliable I/O Engine in the SAS RAID controller industry.

By offering the RocketRAID 4320 at $329 on NewEgg.com customers benefit from a 100% Savings when compared to other manufactures of 8 port SAS RAID controllers with the Intel IOP348 which are priced at $625.

HighPoint has recognized that the struggling economy has forced many businesses into offer lower costing products to entice customer spending. Offering the RocketRAID 4320 at $329 benefits the customer as they will get the highest value for their purchase with the industry’s highest performing and most robust SAS Hardware RAID controller.

The RocketAID 4320 supports the fastest bus speeds with PCI-Express x8 and offers two internal mini-SAS cable connectors that are fast, secure and clutter free. Support for a battery back up unit (BBU) maximizes data protection without sacrificing performance.

SAS scalability fulfills the ever increasing need for adding more storage capacity. Scaling to higher capacities enable customers to pay only for storage they need. Scalability is ideal for file server and content intensive storage platforms requiring the best combination of cost and capacity storage solution.

Backward compatibility to SATA hard drives fulfills the need of storage hungry applications. The lower cost and higher capacity SATA drives are ideal for back up, archiving and storing detail media files.

The higher performing 15K RPM SAS hard drives offers the highest sustained transfer rates for performance hungry applications. Streaming I/O involves digital video and requires high sustained read and write throughput. The RocketRAID 4320 with 15K RPM SAS drives can achieve 1GB/s of sustained throughput for these streaming I/O environments.

Mains specs:

• Intel IOP348 at 1.2GHz
• PCI-Express x8
• SAS and SATA Hard Drive Compatible
• BBU (Battery Backup Unit)
• Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD supported