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Is it for you?
An 8-channel 12Gb/s SAS and 6Gb/s SATA host bus adapter on a half-height PCIe 3.0 x8 card, with two SFF-8643 internal ports that each host up to four drives through certified breakout cables.
Choose it if these matter
- Drives present as independent disks, ready for OS-level RAID, ZFS, Ceph and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct without a proprietary RAID layer
- WebGUI and CLI monitoring suite with SMART health reporting and staggered drive spin-up for multi-drive NAS builds
Skip it if these rule it out
- No hardware RAID: it is a pure HBA, so arrays rely on the operating system or software-defined storage
- PCIe 3.0 x8 host interface rather than the newer PCIe 4.0 or 5.0 generation, and a 1-year warranty
- HighPoint's site links only its own eStore and distributor/reseller channels for this model, with no per-model Amazon listing, so buying it means searching for the exact model
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Full specifications (11)
- Host interface
- PCIe 3.0 x8 (8-lane, 8 GT/s)
- Channels
- 8x 12Gb/s SAS / 6Gb/s SATA channels via 2 SFF-8643 internal ports
- Supported devices
- Up to 8 SAS or SATA hard drives / SSDs (up to 4 disks per SFF-8643 port via certified cabling)
- Form factor
- Low-profile half-height AIC
- RAID mode
- Single disk (HBA); drives appear as independent stand-alone drives for OS RAID, JBOD or software-defined storage
- Management
- HighPoint WebGUI and CLI storage management with SHI (Storage Health Inspector) SMART monitoring and 1-Click diagnostic logging
- Staggered spin-up
- Yes; timed power-up groups of PUIS-enabled hard disks, toggled via WebGUI or CLI
- Operating systems
- Windows 11/10, Windows Server versions 2022, 2019 and 2016, Hyper-V (64-bit); Linux kernel 3.10 and later incl. Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Proxmox, Rocky Linux (64-bit)
- Dimensions
- 5.51in W x 2.48in H x 0.67in D
- Weight
- 0.66 lb
- Warranty
- 1 year
Downloads & support
Setup: Drivers required: Windows needs HighPoint's driver package, and Linux needs the LACS driver package (auto-compiling, network connection required). The card is managed with HighPoint's WebGUI or CLI utilities.
Links go to the manufacturer’s official pages, so you always get the latest, genuine files.
Sources: HighPoint specifications · highpoint-tech.com · HighPoint specifications · highpoint-tech.com. Photos: HighPoint · static.wixstatic.com. Specifications checked November 9, 2026. Spotted an error? Tell us.
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