Three New Rockets from HighPoint...

by Anna Filatova
11/30/2001 | 12:31 AM

HighPoint Technologies announced new members in their Rocket controller card family. Here they are:

• RocketRAID 133. This is a simpler version of the already announced RocketRAID 404 (see this news story) with two ATA/133 channels instead of 4. It also supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and JBOD, but with fewer drives: RAID 0 (2-4 HDDs), 1 (2 HDDs), 0+1 (4 HDDs), JBOD (2-4 HDDs), hot spare and hot swap (with brand Rocket Mate chassises). There is no audio signal support.
• Rocket133. This is a regular 2-channel (2 HDDs per channel) low-profile ATA/133 controller card based on HPT372 chip. It hardly looks any different from RocketRAID133 that is why we cannot add anything else to its description.
• Rocket133S. This controller is a bit more interesting than the other two, though it is also a bit strange. This is a single-channel ATA/133 low-profile controller card based on HPT371 chip. To tell the truth, we don’t remember any single-channel ATA controllers (i.e. supporting only 2 HDDs). Of course, we do understand that it was made to reduce the controller cost as much as possible but will you save a real lot then? We doubt that there are too many differences between the HPT371 chips and its dual-channel counterpart. If there are any...