HighPoint 7604A RAID Card Review: Up to 32TB of Blisteringly-Fast Storage

New adapters offer substantial industrial PCIe expansion — HighPoint's Rocket 1628A and 1528D support deploying up to 32 NVMe drives and 8 PCIe devices in a single slot

The Rocket 1628A and 1528D use HighPoint's PCIe switching architecture to avoid bottlenecks.

HighPoint 7604A RAID card review: Up to 32TB of blisteringly-fast storage

At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Fantastically fast in RAID 0 (50GBps possible) or non-RAID Great for adding PCIe 5.0 M.2 slots to your motherboard Easy to populate and install Versatile RAID setup Cons $1,000 Not a lot of software can take advantage of the speed Our Verdict I love this 16x, four-port, full-speed M.2/NVMe PCIe 5.0 card — it’s faster than most motherboard NVMe M.2 and three to four times as fast in RAID 0 as a single SSD. But…

Tested: HighPoint's RAID card makes me wish I had a need (and the money) for 50GBps storage

At a glanceExpert's Rating Pros Fantastically fast in RAID 0 (50GBps possible) or non-RAID Great for adding PCIe 5.0 M.2 slots to your motherboard Easy to populate and install Versatile RAID setup Cons $1,000 Not a lot of software can take advantage of the speed Our Verdict I love this 16x, four-port, full-speed M.2/NVMe PCIe 5.0 card — it’s faster than most motherboard NVMe M.2 and three to four times as fast in RAID 0 as a single SSD. But i…