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RocketRAID 600 Lite HBA's deliver considerable cost-savings over competing SATA 6Gb/s solutions, without sacrificing either performance or reliability. These Second Generation SATA 6Gb/s host controllers utilize a PCI-Express 2.0 x4 host bus interface, and support non-RAID and RAID configurations of today's fastest SATA 6Gb devices.
The 4-Port RocketRAID 640L is powered by HighPoint's industry-proven RAID Technology. The intuitive BIOS and web-based Management interfaces allow you to quickly and easily configure RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD arrays.
Pros:
-Cheap
- Works most of the time
- Supports large disks (at least 8T).
Cons:
- You have to search around for modern linux drivers. I'm having to create a patch to run on Ubuntu 18.04
- Crashes every week or so.
- What support?
Other Thoughts:
Use to add 8T drives on Ubuntu, not RAID. I have not had much luck finding an adapter to add 4 or more SATA devies with 8T or more capacity.
I use this for my movie disks (18T total), which is infrequently written to.
Pros: It's a RAID card
Cons: No vendor support for modern Linux kernels. Cannot get it to work in any version of Ubuntu.
Other Thoughts: This is a dead support card. Buy something else.
Pros:
Seems to work fine. No drives have failed B"H, so I don't know if it will alert me to a failure.
Running on Windows 8.1
Cons: Boots are slow.
Pros: Second HighPoint controller with no issues. Paired with four WD20EFRX 2TB IntelliPower in RAID 5.
Cons: Software RAID.
Pros: Priced well. Offers various RAID configs.
Cons: Tech support is awful - even insulting. Response times for basic questions is very slow up to 30Hrs. It took me a week and help from other sources to realize that their product marketing was very misleading - and that I had purchased the wrong product.
Other Thoughts: External RAID enclosures are a much more simple solution.
Pros: Load command set gives this raid card the edge for me.
Cons: don't like the sata connection layout
Other Thoughts: another reviewer here at Newegg, David C. has made this card the perfect raid card for my system, as it is being used as a secondary raid-10 support unit. The load command that he indicated, will eliminate the bios load of the card, which works perfect for my hardware setup and speeds up loading of the overall system.
Pros: Worked with my server setup as a RAID 5 data storage, I did not have this setup to boot from. Got decent speeds, too! Typically 100-125MB/sec transfers with 4 4TB Western Digital Green drives. I was happy.
Cons: Computer started to randomly reboot after 3 weeks of flawless operation. I then noticed that on occasion the server would reboot. Narrowed it down to every time the RAID array was accessed heavily, it would BSOD (IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL_TO for RR640L.SYS). And going into the RAID monitoring software, I can re-create the issue every time. I powered the system off, and turned it back on, and when it came time for the 640L to initialize and bring up the BIOS screen, all I got was 1 green square, and an N with a squiggly line over it, and the computer hung. I hit reset, same result. Hit reset a third time, then card initialized, and I continued to boot. I then contacted tech support for Highpoint. Immediately I was told that my hard drives were the problem and they could not help me. Uhh, ok. 1st, if the hard drives were a problem, then why did it work PERFECTLY for 3 weeks? And second, I removed all the SATA cables from the card and am able to replicate the lock computer upon BIOS initialization not only with my original computer, but a 2nd as well! They still refuse to listen and understand, and will not RMA the card. And since it's now over 30 days (I did not start using the card right away after ordering, I had to wait for time to rebuild my server), I cannot return it to Newegg. My advice? BUY ADAPTEC or SOMEONE ELSE, NOT HIGHPOINT.
Other Thoughts: I had a HighPoint RocketRaid 2224 card running in my current server for 3-4 years with 4 1TB Green drives attached to it, and NEVER had any issues. Figured the HP RR640L would provide me with the same service. No. I'm terribly disappointed in myself for not trusting the other people on here that stated the HighPoint Tech Support is terrible. They weren't kidding.
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Pros: Low Cost, but you what you pay for.....
Cons: Upgraded from 2310 to 640L. Array HD's just needed to be connected and it was ready go.... Sweet, but after 10 months the 640L just flat out failed, no BIOS boot up screen.. just died. Warranty is for one year - repair only - ? Customer Service on the web site is not helpful. WEB Management software caused BSD after reinstalling old 2310. Had to uninstall Web Software and hack the register to remove old 640L driver entries to recover.
Other Thoughts: The whole point of RAID 5 is fault tolerance. No one, home or professional industry, needs a RAID controller that fails out of the blue. HighPoint used to be a company with a good reputation, but after this RocketRAID 640L failure, I will NEVER use their product again. I have been using HighPoint RocketRAID controllers since 2005 and never had a failure until I installed the 640L.