I have a new Mac Pro 2009 and needed to interface with fast external storage. I have an Apple Raid Card internally which is currently supporting 4x1TB HDDs. I bought a 4 port HighPoint RocketRaid 2314 card and it has never worked correctly. I even upgraded the drivers and from what I can gather, I think there is a definite problem with the way HighPoint program their drivers. I am now sending my card back to the store and purchasing a 4 port eSata Stardom card which is apparently much faster, but will not allow me to set up a raid storage unit. This is fine as the external boxes I have now have their own Raid built in. The Rocket Raid is really flakey, the drives drop off for no reason and I have experienced lock ups in the finder and Final Cut Pro version 6.06 with Leopard 10.5.7. I have now uninstalled the drivers and the system seems stable again. I will rip out the card once the new one arrives. I think this card would work fine in a PC, but the drivers are flakey in a Mac and it seems others are having problems with 2000 series cards from HighPoint as well. The card I am buying is this one, if anyone has had any experience with this, please let me know.
http://www.epowermac.com.au/shop/pc/Stardom-SJ20-x8-eSATA-4-Port-PCI-e-Host...
Cheers.
G5 Dual 2.3GHZ
2.5GB DDR SDRAM 400MHZ
Mac OS 10.5.1
2 x 20" Apple Cinema Display
128MB ATI Graphics
