VPN: ROCKETRAID 2314
Product ReviewsHIGHPOINT EXTERNAL RAID HBA ROCKETRAID 2314 4ESATA PCI-E
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 Rating: Review Date: 09/14/13 |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/21/13 |
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Rapid transfer speeds, very easily get one hundred+ MB/sec copying from a RAID 5 of 7200 RPM drives (eSATA enclosure) to one more eSATA external drive. Can't beat it for the price. The application is a bit limited, can't configure options such as stripe size for RAID five arrays. It functions even though. It really should be noted that this solution is supported beneath Server 2008/Windows 7 with a driver download from the manufacturer's site. If you have an external RAID enclosure such as the Sans Digital TR8MB this is a Enormous improvement over the bundled RAID controller. I was getting speeds of < 10 MB/sec with the old controller, more than 100 MB/sec with the new. Definitely worth the price. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/24/13 |
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None No meaningful support from HighPoint.Worst tech support in the history of mankind. My dealings with Highpoint tech support was a negative nightmare.They are not competent. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/18/13 |
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None DON'T Buy IT! My card under no circumstances worked and getting consumer service was a NIGHTMARE! When I named in March of 2010, the recording on the company answering machine says they won't be in the office from December XX, 2008 through January XX, 2009! That should give you some idea of how responsive they are...I bought the card for my new Mac Pro and wanted to use it to handle 4 matched, external 1 TB drives on a RAID employing the eSATA connection. Really should have been a no brainer but no...The card by no means worked. I devote hours and hours chasing down options, leaving messages for tech support, never ever acquiring a call back and when following MONTHS I lastly got somebody on the phone who seemed to know what they had been speaking about they told me the card was defective and I needed an RMA to return it.Back to ground zero with this business...I've had to chase down just about every step to approach an RMA and was told this is a approach that can take weeks...Save your cash. Save your time. Keep away! |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/13/13 |
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Cheap price tag Affordable high quality It is a single chip, no RAID engine. Not hardware RAID.Rebuild requires forever. Drive unmount it self.Not user friendly GUI. Not compatible with 5 drive port-multipiler enclosure. three out of four dead on me. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/25/13 |
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Soon after reading numerous adverse testimonials currently regarding the HighPoint RocketRAID 2314 RAID controller (which I also own) and about the WD challenging drive failures too, I can definitely empathize since I initially had comparable challenges as I also lost many WD tough drives in a short time period too, about a year ago. Immediately after a lot frustration, I decided to re-evaluate my “power requirements” 1st, prior to passing final judgment. In the finish, I sooner or later decided to triple the power provide capacity, (and got a bigger UPS also). Because upgrading my technique over a year ago, I have had ZERO challenging drive failures, not to mention a smoother operating system altogether (while enjoying a complete year of PURE BLISS), and all when making use of 100% Western Digital 2TB hard drives in my RAID-five server also. - Poor documentation. By way of trial and error, I ended up re-writing some sections or expanding it with more information for my own future reference and advantage. It seems that most of these "users guides" assumes that the reader already has a background or understanding about how to effectively handle or handle a RAID technique. When it came to understanding RAID systems, I was about as green as they come. But now one particular year later, I know a lot more about the Net primarily based RAID Managment Controls than I ever hoped to know. Now I typically refer to my personal notes anytime I will need to do some thing, or when I require to make any modifications. Simply because of my practical experience, I feel I am “qualified” in suggesting that “before you consider throwing the infant out with the bath water”, that you need to also do as I did. Make sure your technique has at least (at a minimum), one hundred% to 200% Far more Energy ABOVE AND BEYOND YOUR MINIMUM Power REQUIRMENTS, (and cleaner power also). You may possibly want to contemplate doubling or tripling your energy provide capacity to let lots of additional power (plus an further cushion also) to accommodate “peak usage demands”, and for future development. Now I can close my case and pass final judgment relating to the source of my original issues. It was not the fault of the controller card, and it was not the WD challenging drives causing the troubles either. “I WAS AT FAULT”! I failed to anticipate the rising power demands of my method as I slowly built up my technique more than time and as I incrementally enhanced the storage capacity of my RAID-5 server. Now I am incredibly pleased, and I am ready to order another WD 2TB drive, Once again. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/24/13 |
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Speed BIOS doesn't constantly recognize all connected drives. Interferes with sound card under certain circumstances. This card produces much higher transfer speeds than the one that came with my eSATA enclosure.Nevertheless, the method must be cold booted in order to recognize the drives in the enclosure. They are not recognized on a warm reboot.Even on a cold boot, the BIOS regularly fails to detect 1 of the drives in a five drive RAID 5 array (not usually the identical 1, so I don't consider the drives are to blame). The Windows management software recognizes all of them, nevertheless, so it doesn't look to be an concern.As other people have reported, there are some conflicts with onboard audio and/or sound cards. Mine occurred whilst the array was initializing in the background, even although drive and CPU activity have been quite low. When this course of action completed, nevertheless, the problem seemed to disappear. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/18/13 |
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Wow what can I say, this prouct functions good. I just build a sata raid storage unit with 15 - 750 GB tough drives. The card was simple to use. I just made sure that I had the most recent drivers loaded and off it went. It is connected to the 15 drives via 3 port multpliers and 3 Icy Dock 5 into 3 drive cages. The software recognized all 15 drives immediatly. Inside 15 minutes all of the drives were in one 10.5 TB Raid five array. The card is super quickly on transfers None None |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/28/13 |
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Very good Top quality product, tech help was beneficial by means of email responses.. and I did need them. Wasn't really plug and play... Had difficulties at initial with portmultiplier, and conflicts due to my mobo nvidia raid setup for the duration of boot. Upgraded driver/firmware, changed a couple of settings and been functioning like a champ so far. Using 4-500Gig drives. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/08/13 |
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The highpoint web website provides open source drivers (but this isn't such a pro when there is now out-of-the-box support in recent linux kernels with some other controllers). CAUTION: This card has a major bug with certain Western Digital drives. As soon as you put a drive into a JBOD arry, which I did temporarily to move some files around, the initialization of specific WD models will make the drives henceforth unreadable to any controller other than the RocketRAID. It is unforgivable that there was no warning of this key bug anyplace on the product packaging or in the manual. I don't know the full list of WD models affected, but mine were WD1001FALS. I discovered this out after a lot Googling to try to figure out why I couldn't initialize the drives with an additional controller. Highpoint technical support admitted the challenge and mentioned they know of no repair. The advertised throughput of these cards is appealing, but not at the expense of limiting future use of your drives. The good news: Though Highpoint knew of no fix, there is one. If you make a new RAID0 array with the affected disks before moving them, the new controller will recognize the disks and can reformat them (at least my controller did). It did not recognize them soon after JBOD configuration on the Highpoint controller.Strange bug, and I can\'t trust a corporation that knows of this and delivers no warning at all in the manual and no fix after years of figuring out about this problem. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/03/13 |
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Low Value, Easy Setup and Net Interface Continual Challenges when utilised with Western Digital (WD) really hard drives. I assume this may possibly be equivalent to the evaluation mentioning the card "dropping" channels. For whatever cause, typically through a period of disk activity, the complete technique (Mac Pro) hangs, then I hear the loud beeper telling me a drive has failed. I can restart the system and it will rebuild just fine (ㅅh), but then yet another failure happens (same or distinct drive) a couple of days later, and round and round we go. I have warranty replaced the whole set of five drives (WD has fantastic warranty service) and however the periodic dilemma persists. At times it can go months with no an error. Other occasions a freshly replaced disk will fail inside weeks. At present in search of an alternative...provided the "tales" of highpoint's "excellent" consumer service, I doubt I'll even bother taking up the concern with them.PLEASE DO NOT Get IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR Data!If you know of a very good alternative card please let me know! |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/21/13 |
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Works wonderful with my SansDigital TR5MB towers for RAID5 arrays. Study/Write appr. 160 MB/s! That's awesome for below 赨. If you want to add substantial amounts of storage (especially RAID5) to your WHS, this is what you want. Comes with four eSATA cables I didn't will need. I would have rather it been ฤ cheaper due to the fact I had my own cables already, but if you will need the cabling obviously you'll be pleased. It did take about ten hours to compile the RAID5 with 5 Seagate 1.5TB 7200.11 drives. (That's comparable to super-pricey hardware raid solutions.) Considerably superior than the 56 hours it would have taken the SiL3132 chipset on the eSATA card that came with the TR5MB. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/03/13 |
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I can tell that this card has a lot of potential. Making use of with an 8 driveƒx4) enclosure, I can easily set up the supported RAID levels from the BIOS settings screen. From how speedily I've seen it format and run verify disk in the program, I have higher hopes for the R/W speeds, and there is enough space for me to install a different 2x4 enclosure in the future. If you are attempting to set this up in Linux, I would not recommend it for novices. The drivers on the web site are pure garbage, the only way I was able to get them to recognize was by downloading the supply they have on there and compiling my personal module, and even now, even though Ubuntu sees the drive as 6.4TB, it will only format 400GB chunks of it at a time. I am hoping that a BIOS update and (somehow) acquiring the CLI/GUI to operate will resolve this concern. It appears that the card performs alright, it just doesn't like to play well with Linux.Just don't anticipate it to be easy, and if you're on a deadline, you may possibly want to extend it. Other than the absolutely horrid support for Linux that I've seen so far, I have been documenting the measures I've taken and will try to get a definitive "How to get this crazy thing functioning in Ubuntu" posted up at the Ubuntu forums, and I will post the options up here as effectively. If/when I myself get it all figured out, that is. I give it 4 eggs due to the fact even though it has difficulties with Linux, it appears that it works effectively adequate in Windows and OS X, and the device itself seems to perform well independently of the OS. If I can't get it to work in a Linux server, I'll just have to go back to a Windows server resolution.As generally, NewEgg got the item to me ASAP. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/29/13 |
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Functions with XP, server 2003, Windows 7. Rapidly, low cost. Original SATA six.five ' cables are too extended for reputable transfers from card ports 1 and two to Rosewill RSV-S8 enclosure, I/O errors. Ports three and four are OK. To make certain reliability I utilized four' cables that came with enclosure on all ports, challenge went away. Operating 2 Rosewill RSV-S8 on this card. Be confident to update to newest firmware, driver and GUI from Highpoint website |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/22/13 |
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Box/card come with all the SATA cables you need. Drivers & management computer software are effortless to install on Linux. The CLI management computer software is uncomplicated to use. The card keeps "dropping" RAID channels. I am unable to see all 12 drives connected, and drives appear & disappear at random. I thought maybe it was a bad card or the enclosure, but I purchased a second 2320 for one more program and it has the exact same exact concern with dropping channels. Tech support requires a lengthy time to respond, and their initial response was telling me that I am employing an unsupported drive. I'm working with brand new WD Black series difficult drives. Pending some magnificent intervention by HighPoint tech help to my inquiries, I will not be purchasing any a lot more of their cards once again. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/22/12 |
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For the value, this card can't be beat. I've owned software based RAID cards just before and they've usually been as slow as the day is extended. This issue acts like a hardware RAID card with more than 100MB/s read and compose speeds to a Rosewill RSV-S8 enclosure in RAID-5 mode. Supports S.M.A.R.T., hotplugging, and in-location expansion of the array with out obtaining to re-format (currently expanding from 6 drives to eight...total of 10.5TB!) Will NOT support single-drive mode. If you expect this card to address drives 1 at a time, you're wasting your funds. Its meant for RAID ONLY...not as a standalone SATA controller. Purchased the Rosewill RSV-S8 on sale for beneath 250 and added this card for about 200. Spent much less than 500 smokes on 10.5GB worth of RAID-five storage (not which include drives) which is tough to beat. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/20/12 |
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Affordable! Successful! Scalable! On-line migration! *Port-Multiplier Compliant*! Under 赨! Need to upgrade firmware for Port Multiplier Compliance. Took a little bit of floppy-drive swapping in order to adequately upgrade the firmware (USB floppy will operate, did not attempt USB flashdrive) |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/19/12 |
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Card worked right out of the box in Mac Pro two.eight eight-core. Went ahead and updated card firmware and downloaded existing driver from their internet site. Read/write speeds from time to time erratic Ɣ drive striped array must get more than 180 MB/sec--array is four identical WD Black 1tb drivesቼ mb cache). Highpoint Help nearly unresponsive, and have only heard one particular response to open assistance ticket in 7 days. This is unacceptable, but is not NewEgg's fault. Web-based GUI and printed instructions are OK and I was capable to figure items out, but could be a great bit more straightforward and simple-to-comprehend. Had been it not for the unexplained inconsistent create/read speeds, and HighPoint's inability to respond to my tech support requests, I'd be extremely pleased with this card. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/17/12 |
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The channel dropping and subsequent rebuilding is not triggered by this card, or any other RAID cards. It is brought on by the WD customer (Caviar Black, Blue or Green. WD decided to be greedy and removed TLER from the consumer HD's. TLER notifies the RAID card that the HD is recovering from create error and delays the time when the card will drop the HD as failed.WD got greedy and removed this solution from consumer HDs, and also removed the option to flash firmware with TLER to these HDs. They want men and women to obtain commercial grade RE-three, RE-four difficult drives that expense twice as considerably, and which have TLER.So don't blame RAID cards. Place the blame exactly where it belongs and lobby WD to either reinstate TLER in consumer line, or come up with consumer line RE drives with appropriate price tag. None |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/13/12 |
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None so far. Even with newest bios flash, this board will not enable the machine to boot. The conflict appears to take out the on board SATA on the motherboard. I had had Highpoint in the previous, so I attempted this board. Incredibly disapointing supplying. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/06/12 |
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• Low-cost• Currently the only eSATA card for the Mac that supports both SATA Port Multipliers (such as the Silicon Image Sil3726CB chip) and does RAID5• In all fairness, the card seemed to be less flaky in the HP, but it nevertheless logged a ludicrous amount of undesirable sectors, and wouldn't develop a RAID5 with write-through cache option set.• It's entertaining to BETA TEST HARDWARE! • Doesn't operate on an Intel Xserve, connected to a Fusion 500P enclosure utilizing the Silicon Image Sil3726CB Serial ATA II Port Multiplier chip• Repeatedly logged a lot of bad sectors on a set of 5 brand-new WD RE WD3200YS (RAID Enterprise) drives.• Failed to make a RAID5 array with write-by means of cache solution set• Failed to create a RAID5 array with the background-initialization choice set• When I finally managed to generate a RAID5, I tested the redundancy by removing a disk while copying a file, it repeatedly failed to rebuild!• Highpoint driver randomly induced kernel panics on Mac OS X I stuck the card in an HP dx2200 operating XP to attempt a BIOS update, and discovered that the ZIP file on HighPoint's web page was corrupt! I contacted their tech support about the corrupt file, and was told that the BIOS update would not improve the card's operation on a Mac (WRONG!). They supplied a newer driver to attempt on Mac OS X that ultimately allowed me to generate a RAID five, but it triggered random kernel panics till I lastly updated the card's firmware to two.. When I informed them of the kernel panics they merely said: "We'll forward this to our developers." Wow, that's valuable tech help! |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/27/12 |
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Economical, rapidly, and reliable.Good for generating a RAID array working with up to 16 tough drives. Advertised as supporting 20 tough drives.It recognizes all 20, but will not make it possible for you to add a lot more than 16 drives to a single array no matter what RAID setup you try.Tech Support is awful. E mail only, and they dont read the emails.They just glance at them, and then reply with an answer to what they assume your e mail said. I emailed them back and forth now 6 times, and just about every time I state "It recognizes all 20 drives, but will only make it possible for me to pick 16 per array"And all 6 times they replied stating "It need to recognize all 20, we will need to look into this further"As I stated the difficulty has by no means been that it does not recognize all the drives.If they read the 6 emails, they would know that. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/28/12 |
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Uncomplicated set up of card, unit and software. CD comes with Configuration software, BIOS and drive upgrade which is extremely straightforward to stick to. none so far. Work ideal in a Intel Mac G5 |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/17/12 |
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Straightforward installation, operates with Windows 7 64-bit, really rapid compared to other alternatives, Silicon Image 2132 getting 1 of those. Acquiring 100Mbps+ on reads and writes on a 8TB Raid-5 volume with five x 2TB drives. The Silicon Image controller was getting 65Mbps on reads, but 5-10Mbps on writes. Not the least expensive card, but worth it if you're moving alot of data. Also, I had to experiment with unique drives to come across a model that worked finest. The Western Digital WD20EADS 2TB drives added about 5min to my boot time. It would hang at the 'scanning devices' bios screen. I assumed the program had frozen, until I decided to wait it out one particular time. I changed out to the Hitachi HD32000 2TB drives, which scan in about five seconds. I'm utilizing this with the AMS DS-2350S enclosure with 5 drives in Raid-5. I have two, one with 1TB drives, and a new one with 2TB drives. The included Silicon Image 3132 was taking perhaps 80-100 hours to write 2TB of data, exactly where the RocketRaid 3214 will be about 10-12 hours. Also, initialization took about 12-14 hours for an 8TB volume, versus 60 hours for the SiI-3132. I am moving approx. 4TB of DVD files over, then back again, which would have taken literally 3 weeks with the 3132. Ought to take me 3 days or much less with the 2314. Worth the value for me. I have not connected the 1st enclosure to the 2314 yet, just the new a single at this point. I hope anything operates the exact same with 2 enclosures attached. As soon as I transfer over the information, I'm going to add the 1st DS-2350S to the RR 2314 and re-create my array. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/06/12 |
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It is operating in two Mac Pros, 1 running two external 8-bay enclosures and the other operating a single external 8-bay enclosure. User interface is kludgey and inconsistent. Recovery and rebuilding a raid five has by no means worked, even though the remaining drives have the data, allowing me to recover from that and rebuild anything from the ground up. I don't know how this compares to other cards on a Mac, but I'll be testing anything else in the future, anything but HighPoint |
May possibly function for Windoze. Does not perform on Linux. Terrible assistance from emailing Highpoint, not prepared to investigate or assist with troubleshooting. Swift to pass the buck and claim the fault of other hardware. I purchased this card to work with a NORCO DS1220 enclosure. The card that ships with the DS1220 uses a siI3124 chip and the raid driver for it causes major latency problems. I bought this Highpoint controller to hopefully remedy that problem, and it seemed promising as I was at initial able to produce a raid 5 for 5 disks in the enclosure. As soon as I updated the kernel, I attempted to rebuild the Highpoint driver module. Now all I get is a loud beeping noise. I have tried to develop their linux driver against 3 different kernels, and all fail. The BIOS initializes every single drive, and claims they are configured, but there is no way to uninitialize or unconfigure to start off from scratch. Appears like the end of the road for this setup.