HighPoint eSATA v2

     High Point has been synonymous with those familiar with anything that has to do with high performance storage. I can remember the very first on-board performance oriented storage solution being from HighPoint and staying that way for a good three years with such legends as the ABIT KT7A RAID, which was the very first motherboard to offer a IDE RAID solution for end-users. HighPoint has come a long way since those early times, and no doubt, due to the popularity of inexpensive storage from better IDE and the newer SATA technology. Of course, HighPoint has had its ups and downs, no doubt due to the competition from Promise, and Silicon Image, but they just recently have seemed to come to grips into a realm of their own by offering complete packages that cater to the benchmarking enthusiast, video and audiophile, and people like myself that just want to fetch their stuff quicker. Today at ClubOC we going to take a gander at one of their neatest and less expensive offerings, the eSATA v2 kit.

Specifications

Rocket 1511 Host Adapter

Host side interface
  32bit 33/66 MHz PCI

  Number of IDE channels
  1 Channel

  Supported Hard drives
  SATA hard disk drives, IDE hard disk drives (ATA133/100)

  Supported OSs
  Windows 98 / ME / NT4.0 / 2K / XP / 2003
  Linux (SuSE, Red Hat, Caldera, Turbo), and FreeBSD

  Maximum Data Throughput
  150MB/s

  BIOS Function
  Drive Configuration and Management

  Plug and Play
  Yes

  Misc. Functions
  Large LBA support capacity exceeding 137GB

Outer Case size
176mm x 143mm x 70mm
 
Case Material
Aluminum
 
Inner Case size Fits 3.5" factory IDE hard disk drives
 
Power Supply AC input: 100-240V
AV, 50-60Hz
DC output: 12V @ 3.7A
 
Interface
e.SATA (External Serial ATA) to IDE
 
Supported hard drives IDE hard disk drives, up to ATA133

RocketMate 1100 - e.SATA hard disk enclosure
HighPoint's RocketMate 1100 is an external hard disk drive enclosure designed to work in conjunction with e.SATA capable RocketRAID host adapters.

The RocketMate 1100 is compatible with RAID and non-RAID disk configurations, and supports Hot-Swap. With the RocketMate 1100, 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 1100 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.

Rocket 1511 External SATA Host Adapter
The Rocket 1511 Host Adapter is a single channel External SATA controller card that can support SATA or IDE hard disk drives. The external channel is ideal for removable storage applications, and is designed for use with RocketMate external disk enclosures.

Single SATA channel operation for high-performance data storage and retrieval
The Rocket 1511 supports high speed transfer rates up to 150MB/s. It's single External SATA channel supports one SATA, or IDE hard disk, via the RocketMate external disk enclosure.

Support High-capacity Hard Disks
The Rocket 1511 Host adapter supports hard drives larger than 137GB.

Multiple OS Support
The Rocket 1511 Host Adapter is compatible with most major operating systems, including Windows 98, Windows ME (Millennium Edition), Windows NT 3,51/4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux (SuSE, Red Hat, Caldera, Turbo), and FreeBSD.