The RocketRAID 622 from HighPoint Technologies supports most modern operating systems, according to the site, but only list Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. It took some additional digging on the HighPoint Mac support page to discover that Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) has support already built in.
While the RocketRAID 622 boasts some pretty impressive features it remains to be seen if the device can deliver. The following is a list extracted form the site;
- PCI-Express 2.0 x1 (Compatible with PCI-Express 1.0)
- Up to 2 SATA devices with point-to-point connectivity
- Port Multiplier support up to 10 SATA Devices
- RAID level 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD
- Multiple RAID Support
- BIOS Boot to RAID with point-to-point connectivity or through port multiplier
- Quick, Background or Foreground Initialization
- OCE/ORLM (Online Capacity Expansion / Online RAID Level Migration)
- Hot plug and Hot Swap
- Hard drive activity and failed LED
- HighPoint RAID Management Suite (Browser based, CLI and BIOS management through hotkey (ctrl-h)
- Monitoring (SHI Storage Health Inspector), Event log, SMTP and Alarm
- Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X Snow Leopard
- RoHS compliant
