Pauven Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 I just read about the new HighPoint Rocket 750. It is a 40 port (40 hard drives!) controller card, and each port is a 6GB/s SATA port. At first I thought I was looking at a SAS card (which I was hoping it would be), but it looks like the card's 10 connectors work with 4-way breakout cables, so it really is just SATA and not SAS. It also uses one PCIe 2.0 x8 connection. I would have liked x16, but perhaps it's not necessary. It's supposed to come out this month. I'm currently using 4 PCIe cards (and have found it impossible to get them all running at x4 speed due to BIOS issues) plus another 5 ports from the motherboard. This seems like a nice (albeit expensive) solution. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/201304092345011_HighPoint_Launches_40_Port_Serial_ATA_6Gb_s_Controller_Card.html Now where do I find an affordable 40 bay case.... Quote Link to comment
xaudzai Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Wow $739 from Amazon, I would go with PCIe 8x SAS controller pair with SAS Expander for a lot less. Quote Link to comment
mrow Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 Wow $739 from Amazon, I would go with PCIe 8x SAS controller pair with SAS Expander for a lot less. Have to agree. I don't like the idea of putting all your eggs in one basket, so to speak. It is still pretty damn cool though. Quote Link to comment
smino Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Does anyone know if it is supported or not in unraid? Quote Link to comment
StevenD Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 BackBlaze is using this card for the Pod v4. Quote Link to comment
c3 Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 With that drive count, you should investigate the LSI 2308 based controllers which have PCIe 3.0 interface. Quote Link to comment
morreale Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 I just read about the new HighPoint Rocket 750. It is a 40 port (40 hard drives!) controller card, and each port is a 6GB/s SATA port. At first I thought I was looking at a SAS card (which I was hoping it would be), but it looks like the card's 10 connectors work with 4-way breakout cables, so it really is just SATA and not SAS. It also uses one PCIe 2.0 x8 connection. I would have liked x16, but perhaps it's not necessary. It's supposed to come out this month. I'm currently using 4 PCIe cards (and have found it impossible to get them all running at x4 speed due to BIOS issues) plus another 5 ports from the motherboard. This seems like a nice (albeit expensive) solution. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/201304092345011_HighPoint_Launches_40_Port_Serial_ATA_6Gb_s_Controller_Card.html Now where do I find an affordable 40 bay case.... do we have a confirmation that this card will work in unraid? i am thinking about getting it. guess i could give it a try and see what happens Quote Link to comment
GreeffJl Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Hi Does anyone now if this card is supported already? Quote Link to comment
Richneerd Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 I know this is an old post, 4 years , but yes the Highpoint Rocket 750 - 40-Port SATA 6GB/s is working out of the box. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 9 minutes ago, Richneerd said: I know this is an old post, 4 years , but yes the Highpoint Rocket 750 - 40-Port SATA 6GB/s is working out of the box. Question is, is it stable? It uses the same chipset as the SAS2LP, so there could be issues with dropped disks, etc. Quote Link to comment
Starlord Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 I've used my Rocket 750 with unraid since 2016 and I've had zero isues with it. In fact, unraid is the only distro I'm able to get it working at all in. Quote Link to comment
bjoernwk Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Hey, just bought one and there is not one single disk showing connected to this card. I think, with the new kernel it has a problem. Can anyone confirm that? Thanks a lot! BJörn Quote Link to comment
BitBucketeer Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Took the plunge and bought one of these off eBay. Works fine with 6.8.3. There is a post in Bug Reports / PreReleases which indicates that it does not work with 6.9.0-beta25. Quote Link to comment
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