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Supporting up to 4 SATA II and SATA I hard drives, the Highpoint RocketRAID 1740 PCI Express controller card is perfect for entry-level storage servers. Supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD the RocketRAID 1740 can not only backup data but can also extend the storage capacity of a system significantly.
Featuring a PCI-Express x4 compatibility, it's perfect for either a small business environment or server, or just as an additional home add-in. Providing S.M.A.R.T drive monitoring for status and reliability, hot swap and hot spare drive storage, Native Command Queuing support, and web based RAID software, the 1740 is perfect for small to medium size businesses.
Another essential feature in IT environments is the ability for the RocketRAID card to automatically rebuild the RAID array if a drive fails. Last but not least, the 1740 supports a variety of operating systems including the following: Windows (XP, 2000, Server 2003), Windows x64bit, Linux and FreeBSD.
Pros: This is an update to an earlier review. I was having problems with drives dropping and could only get 2 cards to run together. I upgraded to a 1000w PS, older Asus A8V Deluxe socket 939 Mobo and an AMD dual core Opteron 175 CPU. I disabled the 2 onboard sata chips and was able to get (3) RR 1740s running almost immediately. The 4th 1740 would cause NTLDR errors on boot, so I installed 2 Rocketraid 1640 cards in the last 2 PCI slots. BTW, I also got the NTLDR errors with Promise SATA I TX4 card, so the limitation seems to be on the Motherboard side. As soon as I get another 4 Maxtor Maxline III 500GBs I will have 20 HDs in all runing Raid 5 :) Check them out, Newegg has some great pricing on Maxline IIIs right now.
Cons: It took several days of swapping in and out to figure out what would and would not work. I had to abandon Win XP 64 and go back to XP PRO SP2. The A8V Deluxe onboard raids are only Stripe or Mirror and I wanted Raid 5 arrays. Once again I sent a really nice and friendly email asking if Highpoint had any suggestions on how to get a 4th card to run or how to install additional Highpoint cards and got ZILCH in reponse. I figured out that with 2 different types of RR cards, it is better to use the web admin utility than the GUI. I installed the 1740s first and they were assigned port 7405 on the localhost. The 1640s automatically incremented up 2 port numbers to 7407. So I just needed to create 2 seperate favorites in my internet browser to access the raid admin functions. The 1640s both boot up seperately in BIOS and the 3 1740s are available in one BIOS screen.
Other Thoughts: If you don't have much CPU or power then these cards will start dropping HDs. Cheap raid calls for more robust equipment. If anyone knows of a forum we could move these discussions to .. please post it back here, so we can help each other since highpoint's support is sporadic, at best. Happy Raiding !! NEWEGG ROCKS (of course) !!
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Works well on FreeBSD 6.1
Reviewed By: omaha on 11/21/2006
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Spun this baby up on a pair of 500GB SATA II, ran raid 1. Did an on the fly expansion to 1GB of raid0. Bought two more 500's and it spun them up. I migrated to raid5 with a hot spare -- worked flawlessly. I am using the web based admin.
Cons: Not the high end of the raid controller space, but hey this was for my media server. I am using an older via motherboard so I had to go with something PCI based.
Other Thoughts: I really like it that Highpoint is supporting FreeBSD on more cards now. I've got HPT cards running at work and home. I consider it the best value in this $$ range.
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Other Thoughts: I have more than one installed, so on POST it will dsiplay the first one it comes across and not the rest. It could be a MB issue tho.
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No Windows 7 Support
Reviewed By: Ash on 10/16/2009
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: It was somewhat cheap. Creating a RAID was fairly simple and straight forward. No conflicts with the DELL PowerEdge T100 server. Tech support was fairly nice and quick to respond.
Cons: Tried to install Windows 7 on a RAID 1 Array. Windows 7 RC1 doesn't have any native driver support for this particular card and when I contacted Highpoint tech support, this was their responce: "Our Windows 7 driver support is available under our entry level SAS/SATA RocketRAID2600 series and enterprise RocketRAID3500 & 4300 series. So far, we don’t have plan on releasing new drivers...."
Other Thoughts: I have no idea how the card works on XP or Vista. I am sure it works fine. But seeing how they have no plans to support Windows 7, I would recommend to everyone that they look else where for their RAID solutions.
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Don't Try for Tech Support
Reviewed By: Randy on 8/5/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
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Pros: Fast Easy Setup
Cons: They get a one because I cannot assign a negative number. Even with FAST EASY SETUP, there has been no way to recover. When a drive failed, I replaced it with an identical drive, but the system disabled the raid so would not fix it. FOUR LONG days with Highpoints inept tech support finally got me a utility that would enable the array and allow the fix. It enabled the array, but it also corrupted ALL the data on the array. Worse yet, even after it was enabled, it will not rebuild. I have tried 2 of the cards and have the same issue on both. I would not trust my solitaire game to another Highpoint array!!!
Other Thoughts: For those who say I should have called High Point instead of using their email support...I tried. I kept getting a very nice lady who told me that the "support staff" was busy and would call me back within 24 hours. That NEVER happened and I called several times.
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Model
Brand
HighPoint
Model
RocketRAID 1740
Specifications
Type
SATA I & SATA II
Internal Connectors
4 x SATA II
Interface
PCI
Transfer Rate
300MB/sec
RAID
RAID 0/1/5/10/JBOD
Operating Systems Supported
Windows, Linux(opensource) and FreeBSD(opensource)
Features
Features
Backward compatible to RocketRAID 1640 RAID arrays Native Command Queuing (NCQ) Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) and Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM) Staggered drive spin up Hard Disk (Activity / Failed) LED chassis function SAF-TE Enclosure Management Functions BIOS Booting (INT13) to RAID array Quick and Background initialization for instant RAID access Write through and write back cache for RAID arrays Hot swap and hot spare Online array roaming Automatic detect drive to rebuild degraded RAID S.M.A.R.T array monitoring for hard drive status and reliability 64bit LBA for RAID arrays greater than 2TB Low profile form factor for 1U chassis Web browser-base software (Web GUI) Command Line Interface (CLI) SMTP email notification for events and error reporting Remote array management through (Web GUI, RAID GUI and CLI) Support Windows (XP, 2000, Server 2003), Linux and FreeBSD RoHS Compliant
Manufacturer Warranty
Parts
3 years limited
Introduction
Supporting up to 4 SATA II and SATA I hard drives, the Highpoint RocketRAID 1740 PCI Express controller card is perfect for entry-level storage servers. Supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD the RocketRAID 1740 can not only backup data but can also extend the storage capacity of a system significantly.
Featuring a PCI-Express x4 compatibility, it's perfect for either a small business environment or server, or just as an additional home add-in. Providing S.M.A.R.T drive monitoring for status and reliability, hot swap and hot spare drive storage, Native Command Queuing support, and web based RAID software, the 1740 is perfect for small to medium size businesses.
Another essential feature in IT environments is the ability for the RocketRAID card to automatically rebuild the RAID array if a drive fails. Last but not least, the 1740 supports a variety of operating systems including the following: Windows (XP, 2000, Server 2003), Windows x64bit, Linux and FreeBSD.
Highlights
Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s with RAID The revolutionary Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s interface provides scalable performance for storage devices. SATA technology enables easy-to-install, high-performance and low-power hard drives. Four SATA ports support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and JBOD for better performance and reliability.
2 Brackets The HighPoint RocketRAID 1740 includes 2 brackets to support low-profile and regular PCI slots.
Reviewed By: Raid 5 Fanatic on 3/17/2007
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
