High Point RocketRAID 620 2 SATA Port PCI-Express 2.0 x1 SATA 6Gb/s RAID Controller

So, I went out and bought one for myself because I was having trouble setting up a RAID on my motherboard using my own methods. After doing some research, I came to the conclusion that putting a RAID controller in a PCIE slot (PCIE x1 FYI) would handle the RAID and eliminate the system's overhead. br>br>The unit is very simple to set up. Simply locate an open PCIE slot on the back of the PC case, remove the grate covering the slot, and insert the card. The unit came with SATA cables (I believe they're SATA III, but I'm using my own that are definitely SATA III), as well as a low-cost external hard drive. If necessary, create a profile din. br>br>Once the hardware is installed, turn on your computer and go to HighPoint's website, where you'll need to download two files to set up your RAID. I would recommend Googling to locate the relevant page on HighPoint's website for ease of discovery - It's not very user-friendly, but Google's spiders have no trouble with it. So, both the card's drivers and the WebGUI must be downloaded. The WebGUI should then be extracted from both folders and installed. To install the RAID drivers, go to Device Manager, find it in the list of items (it will most likely have a yellow exclamation mark on its icon), and then Right Click it. Drivers need to be updated. After that, you must manually search for the drivers on your computer. Choose the folder that corresponds to your system (32 or 64 bit) from the drivers folder that you extracted just a few moments ago. The utility will complete and the controller will be successfully mounted. After that, restart your computer so that the controller can be properly initialized. br>br>At long last, we can put the hardware to work. Launch the WebGUI and use it to navigate the utility. Confirm that the controller is correctly detecting the drives, then go to a tab with "Array" as the left selection. From here, you can run a simple utility to create the RAID you want. Finally, after you've finished configuring the RAID, open Windows Explorer (as if you were opening a file on your computer), right-click on your computer, and then select Manage. Choose Disk Management from the Storage drop-down menu. You should see a new drive with the same size as the one you created in the RAID utility, as well as a black (rather than navy blue) bar across the top. Right-click, select "New Simple Volume," and then follow the Setup Wizard to create your new drive. br>br>Once you've finished setting up the drive, you're done, and you can use it just like any other drive. On your computer, you now have a working RAID array.

Yusuf MORLEY

| Mar 16, 2021

My system wouldn't boot the first time I put it in a PCIe x1 slot. I figured it was probably a motherboard issue, so I tried my other free slot, which worked fine, but this card was not driverless in Windows 10. Because there are no Windows 10 drivers available on their website (which was confusing and aggravating), I had to download and use the Windows 7 drivers. However, the Win7 drivers worked perfectly, but it took some time to figure out and several reboots to get them to work properly. It's not easy or intuitive to find the software on their website, and the printed instructions in the box aren't great either. br>However, once I had the drivers and WebGUI downloaded and installed, I thought the setup process in the GUI was fairly simple, and I LOVED the fact that setting up RAID1 on two drives that I had previously used in an Intel RAID1 resulted in NO DATA LOSS, saving me hours of copying data from my backup. However, if you're using a drive that already has data on it, make sure you back it up. br>Only time will tell how well this RAID1 performs, hopefully as well as my previous Intel RAID setup on my mobo.

Alianna Everett

| Nov 09, 2021

This card was purchased to replace two eSATA cards that were not supported by Windows 10 drivers. Advantages: br>br> Effective for providing eSATA support for removable drives as well as multiple-drive configurations. I needed enclosures and docking stations for my drives. br>br>Contrary to popular belief, there are a number of disadvantages to using this product.
1. If this card was purchased for removable drives, the booting process now includes 30 seconds of staring at a legacy screen where BIOS searches for RAID discs, which will never be present. This 30- The card's driver cannot change or disable the second handshaking period, as it is a "feature. "
2. Using Windows' "Remove Devices" dialog, it is not possible to remove drives from enclosures or docking stations. Instead, High Point offers a browser-based solution. For this and other configuration functions (such as turning off the card's beeper when a drive is removed or changing the password to the web page's login), you can use a web-based interface driven by a local service. br>br>Best Use: br>After a year of use, I gladly removed the card from my computer and installed it on my file server, where the described "features" are more reasonable than on my desktop computer. On my PC, I upgraded to an eSATA-equipped model. a docking station with multiple inputs and outputs, and an interface docking station USB-enabled storage enclosures three user interfaces capable ones (many of these already had both of these interfaces and only needed to be re-programmed) cabling and connecting to a different PC port). USB- 3 met all multiplexing and removeability requirements while avoiding the drawbacks associated with the current generation of eSATA cards.

Indie Church

| Apr 03, 2021

I've been using this card for a year to connect two external drives to the eSATA ports, and I've had no issues with speed or accuracy (i. e. , no read or write errors on the drive). Because you want speed and accuracy, that should earn a controller five stars. (This is with Windows Server 2012, and the driver is configured in AHCI mode rather than RAID mode. ) )br>br>However: )br>br> br>br>1 star deducted for the inexcusably long 30 second "scan for drives" delay in the BIOS of this card at each boot. This is not something that other SATA controllers do. It is impossible to avoid through any kind of configuration. This 30 second delay isn't significant when your server is stable and runs for weeks between reboots, but when you enter software/hardware configuration mode (e. g. If you're upgrading the OS or replacing failed drives, a 30 second wait between reboots can quickly become frustrating. br>br>Second star deducted due to this card's inability to work with Windows Storage Spaces. Because this controller does not assign distinct "uniqueid" values to each attached drive, some drives attached to this card will not show up as available to be assigned to a storage pool (as described in various postings on the web). You'd think that naming a field "uniqueid" in the specification would be enough to tell a firmware programmer that the values assigned by the driver should be, well, UNIQUE i. e. In this case, however, it is not the case.

Catalina Fleming

| Jun 26, 2021