HighPoint has introduced two Serial ATA 6Gbps PCI Express 2.0 cards, the Rocket 620 and Rocket 622. Both cards will start shipping soon.
HighPoint Technologies – an industry pioneer of innovative SATA and SAS RAID host adapter manufacturing, today unleashes the Rocket 600 series – the industry’s first SATA 6Gb/s host adapter based on PCI-Express 2.0 technology. The Rocket 600 series delivers the next generation of SATA performance with robust SATA connectivity and will be available at the beginning of November 2009.
The Rocket 600 series brings a new level of cost effective pricing and will help drive mass adoption to the next generation of SATA 6Gb/s technology. They are fully industry standard AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) compliant and deliver Out-of-Box Ready installation for the majority of operating systems. The Rocket 600 series are backward compatible to PCI-Express 1.0 technology and (SATA 3Gb/s & 1.5Gb/s) devices. They use the same cable and connectors as previous SATA generations to ease integration.
Pricing and Availability: The MSRP for the Rocket 620 Series is $69.99 and the Rocket 622 $79.99 and will be available at end of October 2009. All HighPoint RocketRAID products are available through channel distribution partners (Bell Micro, D and H, MaLabs and ASI).
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December 14th, 2009 at 7:45 am
Highpoint should be ashamed of themselves …and then run out of town by consumers.
PCIe 2.0 x1 can only handle 4Gbps.
Those are not good for anything except SATAI and single port SATAII.
…what kind of moron makes controller cards with x1 connector anyway?
I predict if they make it at all, and lowPoint does not pull them and re-market as SATA1, they’ll be on *Bay for 10-15 bucks. Come to think of it, that’s prbly what they are: SATA I cards w/ a new label.