Highpoint RocketRAID 1542 eSATA/SATA Adapter & RocketMate 1000 eSATA to IDE Enclosure

[3dGameMan]

Highpoint RocketRAID 1542 e.SATA/SATA Adapter

Features:
- Two Internal and Two External (e.SATA) Channels Serial AA RAID Host Adapter
- Internal & e.SATA(External Serial ATA High Speed of 1.5Gb/s
- Internal Thin Cable helps with inside case temps
- eSATA is three times faster than IEEE1394 and USB2.0



Highpoint RocketMate 1000 e.SATA to IDE Enclosure

The newly developed e.SATA by Highpoint supports the secure, two-way transmission of data across the Serial ATA interface at a speed of up to 1/5Gb/s. It is much faster than USB2.0(480Mb/s) and IEEE1394(400Mb/s). e.SATA connections allow data to flow both ways between your PC to control hard devices in an easy and creative way.


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Product Info: RocketRAID 1542 RocketMate 1000

Provided by: XPCGEAR

Manufacturer: HIGHPOINT TECH

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RocketRAID 1542 4-Channel Serial ATA RAID Host Adapter

2 external channels - 2 internal channels

The RocketRAID 1542 is a unique 4-channel Serial ATA RAID host adapter: 2 external SATA channels, and 2 internal SATA channels. The 4 channels can be used independently, or combined to support a variety of single-disk and RAID configurations. The external channels are ideal for removable storage applications, and are designed for use with the RocketMate 1000 external disk enclosure. The two internal channels are designed to support standard disk configurations, where the hard disks are fixed into the computer chassis.

The RocketRAID 1542 provides multi level RAID support, including RAID 0, 1, 0/1, JBOD, as well as powerful software management functions. The RocketRAID 1542 Serial ATA RAID host adapter increases disk performance to 1.5Gb/s, and supports most of today's popular OSs' such as Windows 9x/ME/NT4.0/2,K Windows XP, Red Hat, SuSE, Turbo, Caldera Linux and FreeBSD.

As a high-performance, affordable RAID solution, the RocketRAID 1542 is well suited for nearly any corporate, industrial, or home environment application. The RocketRAID 1542 Serial ATA RAID host adapter is ideal for small LAN servers, critical business data storage, PC gaming, and high-end personal storage needs. The RocketRAID 1542 is not only able to connect with Serial ATA hard disks, but also can be utilized with standard IDE hard disk drives (when used in combination with the RocketHead100 converter).














Highpoint RocketMate 1000 e.SATA to IDE Enclosure

HighPoint's RocketMate 1000 is an external hard disk drive enclosure designed to work in conjunction with e.SATA™ capable RocketRAID host adapters.

The RocketMate 1000 is compatible with RAID and non-RAID disk configurations, and supports Hot-Swap.

With the RocketMate 1000, users' can safely hot-swap a failed hard disk drive with a fresh hard disk, then recover and rebuild the damaged RAID array - all without powering down the computer, or interrupting the computer's operations.

The RocketMate 1000 can be utilized as a stand-alone removable device bay for use with IDE hard disk drives - a simple and effective tool for any users' removable storage needs.

[tntsniper]

LOL dude you have been getting a new product every day if not more lol.. thats nuts!!! Man would we kill for that !

[getit29]

yeah that's a nice looking set up would be really nice to have
one but I have to much stuff on my desk now hardly have any
room for any thing else to be set on it *bangs head on
wall* (says to self must clean up desk at least once a year)

[efernandez_98]

Originally posted by 3dGameMan
[B]The newly developed e.SATA by Highpoint supports the secure, two-way transmission of data across the Serial ATA interface at a speed of up to 1/5Gb/s. It is much faster than USB2.0(480Mb/s) and IEEE1394(400Mb/s). e.SATA connections allow data to flow both ways between your PC to control hard devices in an easy and creative way.

Schweet Lord! Is this external serial advanced technology attachment connector propritery to highpoint? I hope we see more uses out of it, since the current drives don't use that much bandwidth. Ooo! Perhaps an external serial ata raid array, now that would be schweet!

[Tivon]

I'm looking into these RAID SATA cards. Was thinking of getting 2 Raptor 10K HD's in a Raid0..

[efernandez_98]

Originally posted by Tivon
I'm looking into these RAID SATA cards. Was thinking of getting 2 Raptor 10K HD's in a Raid0..

That would be very fast. Very Expensive. And very scary.

[efernandez_98]

Originally posted by Whisp[TR]
umm im looking over this and i have no idea what it is
this is my guess though lol

it is a card that hooks up 2 hard drives in 2 boxs and lest you have raid on a non raid system

no idea but thats my guess.

Two different products.

• A Serial ATA RAID card with 2 internal and 2 external Serial ATA connectors.
• An External Serial ATA enclosure.

[efernandez_98]

Originally posted by Whisp[TR]
yeah but for hard drives right cant you plug 2 of those boxes in and use raid 0 or 1 im not sure havnt looke dat raid in awhile and my memmory sucks on zoloft lol

Well, I'm sure it's a simple four channel raid controller, so I don't think it matters if you use the external connectors. You'd probably get at least RAID 0 and RAID 1 off of the internal connectors.

[Race234]

umm Im unable to d/l thr VR, it says it cant find it or the file does not exist

[3dGameMan]

Originally posted by Race234
umm Im unable to d/l thr VR, it says it cant find it or the file does not exist

Yep.. my hosting company are having file server problems, however, soon there will be a new mirror posted... Check back on the associated VR in about 15-30 min's

[Race234]

oh ok :D

[jonmcc33]

I have no problems seeing the video. I do have conflight with some of your terminology, 3GM.

USB 2.0 is 480Mbps, ie megabits per second and not MB or megabytes per second.

Serial ATA is 1.5Gbps, or gigabits per second. No HDD is capable of 1.5GB/s data transfer rate. If you can find one I will worship you as a God.

Remember that data is transferred in bits, not bytes.

Also, RAID does indeed stand for Redundant Array of Independant Discs. Considering RAID 5 SCSI arrays I'd hardly consider RAID inexpensive.

I'm in the USAF and I have a quad 900MHz Xeon 2MB L2 cache CPU Dell PowerEdge 6400 server with six 33.6GB Seagate SCSI drives in a RAID 5 array as a testbed server. Would you think an array like that is inexpensive?

I must say, however, that your video reviews are a good change of style for hardware reviews. I really like them and you are very knowledgeable and very clear when you speak.

Two thumbs up!

[egarrard]

Originally posted by efernandez_98
Well, I'm sure it's a simple four channel raid controller, so I don't think it matters if you use the external connectors. You'd probably get at least RAID 0 and RAID 1 off of the internal connectors.

It's the same old Highpoint 4-channel RAID controller we know and love (RocketRAID404, IT7, etc.). It should do everything those do.