HighPoint RocketRAID 2320 8-Channel PCI-Express x4 SATA 3Gb/s RAID Controller

by HighPoint

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 13.4 x 2.8 x 7.7 inches ; 1.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BWZOIA
• Item model number: RocketRAID 2320
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,223 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 31, 2005

Product Description

The HighPoint RocketRAID 2320 PCI Express to SATA IIRAID Controller is the next generation for high performance computing solutions utilizing the latest interconnect technology PCI-Express.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor Linux support, February 26, 2011

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Gregory Martyn - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HighPoint RocketRAID 2320 8-Channel PCI-Express x4 SATA 3Gb/s RAID Controller (Personal Computers)

Although advertising Linux support, don't expect a typical level of support for this product. Unlike most Linux drivers, the driver for this product is maintained outside of the kernel and is far behind. Because it is outside of the kernel, it isn't included in any Linux distributions. We're not even talking RAID support here -- you can't even access your disks individually. Even if you don't mind installing the driver yourself, good luck if you are running any recent version of Linux. The driver page ([...]) hasn't been updated since 2009. The last 5 versions of Fedora are completely unsupported by the driver, and the last 3 don't even work if you manually compile the driver. Even the latest version of RedHat Enterprise Linux is completely unsupported.

Buyer beware!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst support in the history of mankind, February 25, 2010

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Ken Gilbert - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HighPoint RocketRAID 2320 8-Channel PCI-Express x4 SATA 3Gb/s RAID Controller (Personal Computers)

This company is unable to support their products.

If you need support forget it.

I've been dealing with them for over a year (if you can call a one way conversation "dealing with").

Web support is a laugh.

Phone support is non-existent.

Basically if you need help you will not get any.

5.0 out of 5 stars Rock Solid, January 12, 2012

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DH (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HighPoint RocketRAID 2320 8-Channel PCI-Express x4 SATA 3Gb/s RAID Controller (Personal Computers)

This thing has been running about 3 years straight. Except for an occasional reboot due to the OS and not the card. I run 8 1TB 5400RPM WD's in RAID 5. I easily get 370MB/s read & 320MB/s write w/o any tweaking on NTFS in Windows, slightly higher on ext4 in Linux. 7200RPM drives couldn't push the speed much higher because it's already hitting the SATA 3.0Gb/s limit.

Initially I was hesitant because of the price. My only regret is all the wasted time and money I spent procrastinating and not buying this sooner.

I came here today because I'm interested in buying another one. I'm shocked the price is still close to what I paid 3+ years ago. I was hoping the price had dropped after all this time. It won't stop me, it's worth every dime.

The reviews are also surprising. I haven't needed support so I can't evaluate it. I found all firmware, drivers (Win, Ubuntu, CentOS), and utilities I downloaded worked flawlessly.

If you think you need support, you probably shouldn't be messing around with this anyway.