HighPoint RocketRAID 640L Internal 4 SATA Port PCI-Express 2.0 x4 SATA 6Gb/s RAID Controller -Lite Version

: Short version : Quick install, fast card, great product.: Other Version : Installing this card was as painless as it gets. It's small and includes 4 SATA cables. After installing the card and powering up I installed the driver disc and rebooted. The config screen was easy to walk through. I set up my 4 3TB drives as RAID 5, saved and rebooted. The new drive was recognized by Win 7. After formatting I was ready to go.I had my original 4 drive SW RAID still attached to the motherboard (ASUS Ramgage Gene IV) with the new drives attached to RocketRaid. I started copying close to 5.5TB of data from old to new. I watched peaks over 130/mb but it ran steady between 40-70 /mb. In all it took about 28 hours to move all the data (with some delays in interaction by me rearranging some things on the new drives).Once the data transfer was complete, I detatched the old drives, installed the new ones in the case and closed it up. When I rebooted, all things we right where they should be (except for a small issue of drive letters). I didn't do a benchmark but it did seem these drives ran faster than the previous set (all drives were SATA III 3TB drives). This was especially noticable when writing data to the drives and copying data from other networked computers. HW RAID vs. SW RAID might have something to do with this impression too.Cons:None that I have found. Maybe that I paid for overnight shipping but didn't get it overnight. No reflection on the product in any case.In summary, this is a very good card, at a very good price and it just plain does what it says.

Installation and configuration is very easy.This card works well in PCIe x16, my motherboard does not have x4, performance is good and very similar to the review I've seen of my Intel 330 180GB.The manual shows how to install the driver for Windows 7 during the installation process. Everything is faster now.La instalación y configuración es muy fácil.Esta tarjeta funciona bien en x16 PCIe, mi placa base no tiene x4, el rendimiento es bueno y muy similar a la revisión que he visto de mi Intel 330 180GB.El manual muestra cómo instalar el controlador para Windows 7 durante el proceso de instalación. Todo es más rápido ahora.Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300Asus P5N-DKingston HyperX 1066MHz DDR2 4GBEVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti2x Intel 330 180GB SSDbeforeAS SSD Benchmark 1.5.3784Seq: 129.99 MB / s Read, 104.07 MB / s Write4K: 18.95 MB / s Read, 48.88 MB / s Write4K-64Thrd: 62.75 MB / s Read, 57.30 MB / s WriteAcc.Time: 0086 ms, 0238 msScore: 95, 117Total: 267afterAS SSD Benchmark 1.5.3784Seq: 447.53 MB / s Read, 206.98 MB / s Write4K: 22.19 MB / s Read, 81.73 MB / s Write4K-64Thrd: 167.05 MB / s Read, 162.19 MB / s WriteAcc.Time: 0054 ms, 0222 msScore: 234, 265Total: 615RAID 02x Intel 330 180GB SSDAS SSD Benchmark 1.5.3784Seq: 721.17 MB / s Read, 408.62 MB / s Write4K: 25.12 MB ​​/ s Read, 79.88 MB / s Write4K-64Thrd: 327.09 MB / s Read, 274.42 MB / s WriteAcc.Time: 0050 ms, 0209 msScore: 424, 395Total: 1029

Purchased this card to replace 2 eSATA cards that did not offer driver support in Windows10.Pros: Effective for providing eSATA support for removable drives and for multiple-drive enclosures and docking stations, which is what I needed.Cons:1. Booting of PC now includes 30 seconds of staring at a legacy screen where BIOS looks for RAID discs, which will never be there if this card was purchased for removable drives. This 30-second handshaking period is a "feature" and cannot be adjusted or removed by the card's driver.2. Removal of drives in enclosures or docking stations cannot be performed using Windows' "Remove Devices" dialog. High Point instead provides a browser-based interface driven by a local service for this and other configuration functions (including turning off the card's beeper when a drive is removed or changing the password to the web page's login)Best Use:After a year's use, I gladly removed the card from my PC and put it into my file server, where the described "features" are more reasonable than for my desktop PC. On my PC, I replaced my eSATA-interface docking station and multiple-drive enclosures with USB-3 interface-capable ones (Many of these had both of these interfaces already and only required re-cabling and plugging into a different port on the PC). USB-3 performed all multiplexing and removeability requirements without the penalties of the current generation of eSATA cards' implementation.