Marketing description

The RocketRAID 2680 is a high-performance SAS RAID solution, delivering reliability to demanding data-intensive applications such as tiered storage environments (disk-to-disk or disk-to-disk-to-tape backup), security and surveillance, video editing, and digital content creation. Support for both SAS and SATA 3Gb/s drives on the same controller maintains configuration optimization for performance based on the characteristics of SAS and SATA drives available today.

Key selling points

• PCI-Express x4
• 8 internal SAS/SATA 3Gb/s ports
• SAS connectivity expandable to 128 SAS/SATA via expanders
• NCQ (Native Command Queuing)
• Low profile
• RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and JBOD
• Multiple RAID support
• Online array roaming
• Automatic RAID rebuild
• Automatic drive insertion
• Online capacity expansion/online RAID level migration
• Configurable stripe size
• Staggered drive spin-up
• Bad sector repair and remapping
• BIOS booting support
• SMTP (email notification)
• Hard drive activity and failure LED
• SAF-TE chassis environment monitoring