Known more for its RocketRAID enterprise-grade HBA addon-cards, HighPoint has been making inroads to the consumer storage market for quite some time. These efforts are led by its RocketStor product family, the latest member of which, is a unique dual 3.5-inch/2.5-inch SATA drive dock, which features two USB 3.0 host interfaces.
The RocketStor 5122B from HighPoint features a rather convention "toaster-dock" design. It has two drive bays, capable of holding hard drives and solid-state drives in the 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch form-factors, with SATA 6 Gb/s interface. Each of the two bays has its own USB-to-SATA host-controller, making it what is essentially two single-bay USB 3.0 docks rolled into one. HighPoint claims the approach results in over 400 MB/s of bandwidth for each bay. The SATA host supports drives with volume sizes of up to 4 TB.
The RocketStor 5122B also comes with a one-touch backup feature, which works with bundled software, to back-up data from a host PC into the specified drives, or between two installed drives. Measuring 135mm (W) x 121mm (L) x 70mm (H), the dock weighs about 1 kg. It uses an external power-supply. The dock supports Windows Vista/2008/7, and Mac OS X.
New HighPoint RocketStor Dock Leverages Two USB 3.0 Connections
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