HighPoint Technologies has up to date their NVMe swap and RAID options with PCIe 5.0, and supporting as much as eight NVMe drives. The new HighPoint Rocket 1600 (swap add-in card) and 7600 collection (RAID adapters) are the successors to the SSD SSD7500 collection adapter playing cards launched in 2020. Similar to its predecessors, the brand new Rocket collection playing cards are additionally primarily based on a Broadcom PCIe swap (PEX 89048). The Rocket 7600 collection runs the RAID stack on the built-in ARM processor (dual-core Cortex A15)
The PEX 89048 helps as much as 48 PCIe 5.Zero lanes, out of which 16 are devoted to the host connection within the Rocket adapters. The use of a real PCIe swap signifies that the product would not depend on PCIe lane bifurcation help within the host platform.
HighPoint’s Gen 5 stack at the moment has two merchandise every within the swap and RAID lineups – an add-in card with help for M.2 drives, and a RAID adapter with 4 5.Zero x8 SFF-TA-1016 (Mini Cool Edge IO or MCIO) connectors to be used with backplanes / setups involving U.2 / U.3 / EDSFF drives.
The RAID adapters require HighPoint’s drivers (accessible for Linux, macOS, and Windows), and helps RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 10 arrays. On the opposite hand, the AIC requires no customized drivers. RAID configurations with the AIC will must be dealt with by software program operating on the host OS. On the {hardware} aspect, all members of the Rocket collection include an exterior energy connector (as the answer can eat upwards of 75W) and combine a heatsink. The M.2 model is actively cooled, because the drives are housed inside the full-height / full-length playing cards.
The answer can theoretically help as much as 64 GBps of throughput, however real-world efficiency is proscribed to round 56 GBps utilizing Gen 5 drives. It have to be famous that even Gen four drives can make the most of the brand new platform and ship higher efficiency with the brand new Rocket collection in comparison with the older SSD7500 collection.
The playing cards are delivery now, with pricing starting from $1500 (add-in card) to $2000 (RAID adapters). HighPoint will not be alone in focusing on this HEDT / workstation market. Sabrent has been teasing their Apex Gen 5.Zero x16 answer involving eight M.2 SSDs for a couple of months now (involving a Microchip PCIe swap. Until that answer involves the market, HighPoint seems to be the one recreation on the town for workstation customers requiring entry to direct-attached storage able to delivering 50 GBps+ speeds.
