HighPoint High-Speed Storage Controller Card – RocketU 1144E USB 3.1 Gen 1 + eSATA PCIe

The RocketU 1144E USB 3.1 Gen 1 + 6 Gb/s eSATA PCIe 2.0 Controller Card from HighPoint maximizes the performance potential of USB 3.0 and 6 Gb/s SATA storage devices on a single host bus adapter (HBA). This high-performance controller card boasts dedicated dual 5 Gb/s USB 3.0 ports for standard USB devices and dedicated dual 6 Gb/s eSATA ports optimized for fast SATA solid state drives and high-capacity hard drives, making it ideal for storage expansion, personal media libraries, and backup solutions.

With a dedicated per port architecture, each storage device can fully utilize the PCIe 2.0 x4 host interface. The card also supports UAS (USB Attached SCSI) to maximize USB 3.0 device performance by handling multiple data transfers simultaneously. It is designed to be Thunderbolt Aware, working seamlessly with Thunderbolt PCIe expansion devices and storage enclosures. The card is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 and 1.1, as well as eSATA 3 Gb/s, and is compliant with xHCI (Extensible Host Controller Interface) Specification v1.00.