--- product_id: 324132674 title: "Highpoint Technologies RocketRAID 2840C PCIe 3.0 x8 16-Port 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Controller" brand: "highpoint" price: "€ 273.36" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 category: "High Point" url: https://www.desertcart.de/products/324132674-highpoint-technologies-rocketraid-2840c-pcie-3-0-x8-16-port store_origin: DE region: Germany --- # PCIe 3.0 x8 ultra-fast interface 16x 6Gb/s SAS/SATA ports Comprehensive multi-OS RAID management Highpoint Technologies RocketRAID 2840C PCIe 3.0 x8 16-Port 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Controller **Brand:** highpoint **Price:** € 273.36 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🚀 Elevate your data game with RocketRAID — where speed meets scale and control! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Highpoint Technologies RocketRAID 2840C PCIe 3.0 x8 16-Port 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Controller by highpoint - **How much does it cost?** € 273.36 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.de](https://www.desertcart.de/products/324132674-highpoint-technologies-rocketraid-2840c-pcie-3-0-x8-16-port) ## Best For - highpoint enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted highpoint brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Cross-Platform Powerhouse:** Seamlessly manage your arrays on Windows, macOS, and Linux with intuitive WebGUI, CLI, or BIOS interfaces. - • **Universal RAID Versatility:** Configure RAID 0,1,5,6,10,50, JBOD & Single Disk to tailor performance and redundancy to your exact needs. - • **Blazing PCIe 3.0 x8 Bandwidth:** Experience lightning-fast data throughput that keeps your enterprise storage ahead of the curve. - • **Future-Proof Storage Evolution:** Upgrade on the fly with Online Capacity Expansion, RAID Level Migration, and RAID Roaming for zero downtime growth. - • **Massive 16-Port SAS/SATA Support:** Scale effortlessly with up to 16 high-speed 6Gb/s drives for ultimate storage density and flexibility. ## Overview The Highpoint RocketRAID 2840C is a professional-grade PCIe 3.0 x8 RAID controller featuring 16 high-speed 6Gb/s SAS/SATA ports. It supports a wide range of RAID configurations and offers comprehensive management tools across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Designed for enterprise and NAS-class drives, it enables seamless online capacity expansion and RAID migration, ensuring scalable, reliable, and future-proof storage solutions for demanding professional environments. ## Description RocketRAID 2840C (RR2840C) RAID controllers deliver professional grade RAID storage & management features at a fraction of the cost of conventional host RAID solutions. Each adapter is powered by our industry proven RAID technology, superior Gen 3.0 PCIe transfer bandwidth, and are capable of supporting up to 16 6Gb/s Enterprise or NAS class SAS/SATA hard disk drives (spindle drives), in one or more RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and JBOD configurations. Comprehensive RAID & Storage Management Suite: When it comes to maintaining critical storage configurations, each customer has specific needs and preferences. RocketRAID 2840C controllers provide 3 management interfaces: BIOS level menus, a command line interface, and a Web-based GUI. The Web-based Management Interface (WebGUI) is a simple, intuitive web-based management tool and is ideal for customers who are new to RAID technology. The CLI (command line interface) is a powerful, text-only management interface designed for advanced users and professional administrators. The CLI and WebGUI interfaces provides a wide range of preemptive monitoring and maintenance features that enable administrators to easily check the status of each individual drive and schedule verification sessions to ensure the health of hosted RAID configurations. Seamlessly Upgrade RAID Storage - Customers are free to expand or convert RAID storage configurations as needed to keep on top of the evolving demands of the storage application, without sacrificing existing data. Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) allows administrators to add new drives to existing arrays in order to expand available capacity. Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM) allows administrators to convert one RAID level to another in order to tune storage configurations for maximum performance or data security. Arrays created with RocketRAID 2840C adapters are future-proof; Online RAID Roaming allows customers to move existing RAID arrays to other RR2840C RAID controllers, in addition to all future HighPoint RAID products. Review: Best raid controller for windows 11 hands down - Pros: Easy to use web based management software Supports sata too Supports larger capacity hard drives Alert you when a drive is failing and the management software tells you which drive is failing where it’s connected (the alert states it based on the corresponding connected connection and the fact my cables are labeled and my drives are also labeled doesn’t hurt either) it automatically rebuilds raid 1 arrays You can mute the really loud shrill noise it makes when you have a failing drive It’s not too slow (then again I had a raid controller that was pretty old and slow and was a pcie 2.0 pulled from a retired r710 server after i upgraded the r710 so really anything was better than that Dino) Drivers support windows 11 Easy and painless to install and use Physically durable and well built. Doesn’t feel cheap Supports multiple large capacity drives on multiple arrays Compatible with multiple operating systems including windows 10 and 11. Definitely has windows 11 compatibility. This includes drivers. Functions well hasn’t crashed or froze up my computer It costs less than $200 for me it was about $150 plus tax Well packed. Drivers are easy to find on the manufacturer website. Works in desktop PCs Includes low profile bracket if you need one Is a true one slot card not a 1.5 slot with tall heatsink It’s pcie 3.0 not some stupid halfarsed pcie 2.1 or something older Doesn’t overheat and thermal shutdown or BSOD due to overheating Good for 24/7 use (so far) so it’s good for home labs and NAS RAID setups that are used as primary centralized data and application software. You can run and access multiple arrays at once with minimal slowdown And best of all it absolutely totally DOES NOT SUCK!!!!! Definitely worth picking up especially if you’re a Windows 11 centralized data and application server user There’s also a similar controller by the same manufacturer here on desertcart for $100 if the extra $50 plus tax scared you off. If so I recommend that one as well it also supports windows 11 and 16 sata drives across the same type of cables and is also a 4 port card. So keep that one in mind too if you want. These are great controllers with great compatibility and easy to install and easy to use so DEFINITELY pick one up! Cons: Doesn’t include cables but you can get some cheap third party ones here on desertcart. I got a 2 pack of relabeled mini sas to sata ones for less than $30 including tax on desertcart. This controller supports 4 cables and 16 drives total It states it supports Linux but I’m a Windows user not a Linux user (I can’t Linux even if my life depended on it) so I can’t really speak on that myself No support for Mac according to what I see Sorry rich 1% people and major conglomerates who are so filthy rich they can afford a Mac without using their mortgage money entire life savings work five 9 to 5 jobs not eat for a year and go into massive debt to afford a Mac like everyone else in Main Street America would have to do to afford a Mac. This is not the card for you! Review: Excellent Cards *UPDATED* - UPDATED Twice - I have used Highpoint cards for many years. I used to use the 2322, and now I use the 2722. I have probably a dozen of the 2722 model now in my own Mac Pro systems and client Mac Pro systems. These cards have always been great performers. A couple of years ago one of these RAID systems almost succumbed to the Seagate firmware fiasco. But to my amazement the RAID array held together and I was able to migrate the data to a new set of drives. I have never had reason to contact their tech support - until about a month ago. I took the bleeding edge approach with a new server - going with a Mac mini and a Thunderbolt PCI expansion chassis. And yes I bled. :-) The card would not be recognized by the OS. The experience with Highpoint's tech support was prompt and ultimately successful. Highpoint was able to update the driver, and now a new Mac mini is happily hosting a 12-TB RAID 5/0 array. The reviews prior to mine just don't make sense to me, unless perhaps these reviewers were using consumer-grade desktop drives in RAID systems. The use of desktop drives in a RAID system would completely explain their woes. I use nothing but RAID drives in RAID systems. There are important differences between desktop drives and enterprise drives, and pretending these differences don't exist will result in much angst. Desktop drives should not be used in RAID systems, and enterprise drives should not be used as stand-alone drives in a desktop. I do have one nit to pick with Highpoint. They should update their documentation for the Mac explaining that it is unnecessary with OS X 10.8.x to install the driver that is included on the CD or available for download. All that is necessary is that the Web GUI be installed by doing a Custom Install of the driver installer. If the driver is installed along with the Web GIU, it will conflict with the driver included with the OS. This point should be made clear as day in the documentation and on the download page for the driver. In fact there should be two installers - one for the driver and another for the Web GUI - not both rolled into one. Nit pick aside, I do highly recommend Highpoint products on the Mac. Next I will try one of their RocketStor docks. *UPDATE* I am having to reduce my rating from 5 stars to 2 stars. If you are using this in a PCI based Mac Pro then my 5-star raing still applies. However if you are using this in a Thunderbolt system then avoid this product. I discovered a serious performance bug in this card in Thunderbolt systems: I placed a RAID & this card on a Mac Pro with internal PCI and measured the performance, which was excellent. I then took the same RAID & card and placed it in a Mac mini with a Sonnet Thunderbolt enclosure. The write performance was excellent and matched that of the Mac Pro. However the read performance was 1/5 - an 80% degradation. I contacted their tech support and they were able to confirm this behavior, and they said it could not be corrected. Tech support said the 472x line would have better performance. I have about 5 of these cards in Thunderbolt environments. I have repeatedly contacted their sales department with the request of an upgrade to the 472x card. All attempts have been ignored. Meanwhile on their web site this card is still listed as compatible with Thunderbolt. The performance is so poor in my opinion this card cannot be qualified as compatible with Thunderbolt. Due to this brush-off by sales I am going to standardize on a different manufacturer's card. I'm done with HighPoint. *UPDATE 2* March 2015 And a happy ending to this Thunderbolt situation. Somewhere along the line Highpoint fixed the performance issue with Thunderbolt environments. I was using one of the Mac minis with the RAID to do some testing. I noticed with Yosemite that the performance was as expected. Yosemite comes with driver version 4.3.3. So as a test I wiped the OS and installed a Mavericks (which comes with driver 4.0.0). Sure enough the performance was back to terrible. Next I downloaded & installed driver 4.4.4 from Highpoint. Now under Mavericks the performance was again terrific. I will revise my rating back to 5 stars. Although I am not in the least bit pleased by the brush off by their tech support with saying that the problem could not be fixed. Had the numbskulls not brushed me off like that that and had instead fixed the problem I wouldn't have gone and recommended cards from another vendor. ## Features - PCIe 3.0 x8 host Interface - 16x 6Gb/s SAS/SATA ports (4x SFF-8643 ports) - Supports up to 16 NAS/Enterprise class 6Gb/s SAS/SATA HDD (spindle hard disk drives) - Windows, macOS & Linux - RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 1/0, 5/0, JBOD & Singe Disk - Comprehensive & Universal Management Suite macOS, Linux & Windows ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B08TM38F25 | | Best Sellers Rank | #20 in RAID Controllers | | Brand | HighPoint | | Compatible Devices | Personal Computer | | Customer Reviews | 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars (233) | | Hardware Interface | PCI Express 3.0, PCI Express x8, PCIE x 8 | | Item Type Name | HighPoint RocketRAID 2840C PCIe 3.0 x8 16-Port 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Controller | | Manufacturer | HighPoint Technologies, Inc. | | Model Number | RR2840C | | Operating System | Only supports 64 bit operating system. • Linux (Support Linux Driver auto Compile) • Redhat/Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora/Proxmox/Rocky Linux(Kernel 3.10 and later) • Unraid6.9.2, Windows 11, 10, 8, 7; Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012R2, 2008; Microsoft Hyper-V; Only supports 64 bit operating system, macOS 10.9 ~ macOS Ventura 13.x | | Style Name | 4x Int. mini-SAS HD Ports – up to 16 HDD | | UPC | 643653284023 | | Warranty Description | 2 Years | ## Product Details - **Brand:** HighPoint - **Compatible Devices:** Personal Computer - **Hardware Interface:** PCI Express 3.0, PCI Express x8, PCIE x 8 - **Style:** 4x Int. mini-SAS HD Ports – up to 16 HDD - **UPC:** 643653284023 ## Images ![Highpoint Technologies RocketRAID 2840C PCIe 3.0 x8 16-Port 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Controller - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51kh+BnRASL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Style** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best raid controller for windows 11 hands down *by M***. on January 5, 2025* Pros: Easy to use web based management software Supports sata too Supports larger capacity hard drives Alert you when a drive is failing and the management software tells you which drive is failing where it’s connected (the alert states it based on the corresponding connected connection and the fact my cables are labeled and my drives are also labeled doesn’t hurt either) it automatically rebuilds raid 1 arrays You can mute the really loud shrill noise it makes when you have a failing drive It’s not too slow (then again I had a raid controller that was pretty old and slow and was a pcie 2.0 pulled from a retired r710 server after i upgraded the r710 so really anything was better than that Dino) Drivers support windows 11 Easy and painless to install and use Physically durable and well built. Doesn’t feel cheap Supports multiple large capacity drives on multiple arrays Compatible with multiple operating systems including windows 10 and 11. Definitely has windows 11 compatibility. This includes drivers. Functions well hasn’t crashed or froze up my computer It costs less than $200 for me it was about $150 plus tax Well packed. Drivers are easy to find on the manufacturer website. Works in desktop PCs Includes low profile bracket if you need one Is a true one slot card not a 1.5 slot with tall heatsink It’s pcie 3.0 not some stupid halfarsed pcie 2.1 or something older Doesn’t overheat and thermal shutdown or BSOD due to overheating Good for 24/7 use (so far) so it’s good for home labs and NAS RAID setups that are used as primary centralized data and application software. You can run and access multiple arrays at once with minimal slowdown And best of all it absolutely totally DOES NOT SUCK!!!!! Definitely worth picking up especially if you’re a Windows 11 centralized data and application server user There’s also a similar controller by the same manufacturer here on Amazon for $100 if the extra $50 plus tax scared you off. If so I recommend that one as well it also supports windows 11 and 16 sata drives across the same type of cables and is also a 4 port card. So keep that one in mind too if you want. These are great controllers with great compatibility and easy to install and easy to use so DEFINITELY pick one up! Cons: Doesn’t include cables but you can get some cheap third party ones here on Amazon. I got a 2 pack of relabeled mini sas to sata ones for less than $30 including tax on Amazon. This controller supports 4 cables and 16 drives total It states it supports Linux but I’m a Windows user not a Linux user (I can’t Linux even if my life depended on it) so I can’t really speak on that myself No support for Mac according to what I see Sorry rich 1% people and major conglomerates who are so filthy rich they can afford a Mac without using their mortgage money entire life savings work five 9 to 5 jobs not eat for a year and go into massive debt to afford a Mac like everyone else in Main Street America would have to do to afford a Mac. This is not the card for you! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent Cards *UPDATED* - UPDATED Twice *by P***C on August 24, 2013* I have used Highpoint cards for many years. I used to use the 2322, and now I use the 2722. I have probably a dozen of the 2722 model now in my own Mac Pro systems and client Mac Pro systems. These cards have always been great performers. A couple of years ago one of these RAID systems almost succumbed to the Seagate firmware fiasco. But to my amazement the RAID array held together and I was able to migrate the data to a new set of drives. I have never had reason to contact their tech support - until about a month ago. I took the bleeding edge approach with a new server - going with a Mac mini and a Thunderbolt PCI expansion chassis. And yes I bled. :-) The card would not be recognized by the OS. The experience with Highpoint's tech support was prompt and ultimately successful. Highpoint was able to update the driver, and now a new Mac mini is happily hosting a 12-TB RAID 5/0 array. The reviews prior to mine just don't make sense to me, unless perhaps these reviewers were using consumer-grade desktop drives in RAID systems. The use of desktop drives in a RAID system would completely explain their woes. I use nothing but RAID drives in RAID systems. There are important differences between desktop drives and enterprise drives, and pretending these differences don't exist will result in much angst. Desktop drives should not be used in RAID systems, and enterprise drives should not be used as stand-alone drives in a desktop. I do have one nit to pick with Highpoint. They should update their documentation for the Mac explaining that it is unnecessary with OS X 10.8.x to install the driver that is included on the CD or available for download. All that is necessary is that the Web GUI be installed by doing a Custom Install of the driver installer. If the driver is installed along with the Web GIU, it will conflict with the driver included with the OS. This point should be made clear as day in the documentation and on the download page for the driver. In fact there should be two installers - one for the driver and another for the Web GUI - not both rolled into one. Nit pick aside, I do highly recommend Highpoint products on the Mac. Next I will try one of their RocketStor docks. *UPDATE* I am having to reduce my rating from 5 stars to 2 stars. If you are using this in a PCI based Mac Pro then my 5-star raing still applies. However if you are using this in a Thunderbolt system then avoid this product. I discovered a serious performance bug in this card in Thunderbolt systems: I placed a RAID & this card on a Mac Pro with internal PCI and measured the performance, which was excellent. I then took the same RAID & card and placed it in a Mac mini with a Sonnet Thunderbolt enclosure. The write performance was excellent and matched that of the Mac Pro. However the read performance was 1/5 - an 80% degradation. I contacted their tech support and they were able to confirm this behavior, and they said it could not be corrected. Tech support said the 472x line would have better performance. I have about 5 of these cards in Thunderbolt environments. I have repeatedly contacted their sales department with the request of an upgrade to the 472x card. All attempts have been ignored. Meanwhile on their web site this card is still listed as compatible with Thunderbolt. The performance is so poor in my opinion this card cannot be qualified as compatible with Thunderbolt. Due to this brush-off by sales I am going to standardize on a different manufacturer's card. I'm done with HighPoint. *UPDATE 2* March 2015 And a happy ending to this Thunderbolt situation. Somewhere along the line Highpoint fixed the performance issue with Thunderbolt environments. I was using one of the Mac minis with the RAID to do some testing. I noticed with Yosemite that the performance was as expected. Yosemite comes with driver version 4.3.3. So as a test I wiped the OS and installed a Mavericks (which comes with driver 4.0.0). Sure enough the performance was back to terrible. Next I downloaded & installed driver 4.4.4 from Highpoint. Now under Mavericks the performance was again terrific. I will revise my rating back to 5 stars. Although I am not in the least bit pleased by the brush off by their tech support with saying that the problem could not be fixed. Had the numbskulls not brushed me off like that that and had instead fixed the problem I wouldn't have gone and recommended cards from another vendor. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by D***N on June 10, 2020* I have 5-4TB drives connected in RAID5 using SAS to SATA Cables. Has been running for several months with no issue at all. Performance is great for a mass storage device, no issues playing 4K movies from it. 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