The HighPoint RocketRAID 3522 is an 8-channel PCI-E x8 to Serial ATA II RAID controller. The RocketRAID 3522 solution designed for enterprise storage applications such as NAS solutions, workgroup and web servers, video streaming / video editing workstations, data archiving/back up, and security systems.

• TerabyteStream™ for blazing performance
• 2 External mini-SAS Channels up to 8 SATA I or SATA II Hard Drives
• Option Battery Backup Unit (BBU-03)
• Multiple RAID support
• Multiple Logical Drive Support
• Online array roaming
• Multi -adapter support up to 4 adapters
• Online capacity expansion (OCE)
• Online RAID level migration (ORLM)
• Quick and Background initialization for instant RAID configuration
• Write through and write back cache
• Automatic drive insertion / removal detection and rebuild
• 64bit LBA support greater than 2TB per volume
• BIOS booting support
• BIOS PnP and BBS (BIOS boot specification) support
• Intel RAID 6 (P Q) for large capacity RAID arrays
• NVRAM for write journaling
• S.M.A.R.T monitoring hard drive status for reliability
• Staggered Spinup with user selection in BIOS
• Disk scrubbing to prevent degraded RAID arrays on and Reliability
• Bad sector repair and remapping to reduce dropped drives
• ATA pass-through mode support
• Firmware update in the Operating System
• Hot key (ctrl-h) boot-up RAID manager via BIOS
• (MAID) spin down drives in array is idle
• SMTP for email notification
• SAF -TE (I2C) enclosure management
• Alarm / Buzzer alerts for array activity
• SNMP for remote management
• Ethernet board for (OBM) Out of Band Management
• NTP (Network Time Protocol)
• API library for customizing AP
• Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Web browser-base RAID management software