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HighPoint RocketU 1144B/ 1142A

Highpoint Second Generation USB 3.0 HBA's - Dedicated 5Gb/s per-port technology with robust transfer

performance and improved energy efficiency

The RocketU 1144B is the industry's fastest USB 3.0 HBA – each dedicated USB 3.0 port supports transfer

speeds up to 5Gb/s , for a combined bandwidth of up to 20Gb/s; perfect for today's fastest SATA 6Gb/s

SSD's and hard drives.

1 Features and Specifications

Host Adapter Architecture

 PCI-Express 2.0 x4

 Total Transfer Bandwidth up to 20Gb/s

 Four dedicated 5Gb/s Super Speed USB 3.0 type-A ports (RocketU 1144B)

 Two Super Speed USB 3.0 type-A ports and one 10Gb/s Internal USB 3.0 Front Panel Port (RocketU

1142A)

 Optimized for external USB drives and drive enclosures

 Backwards compatible with USB 2.0 & 1.1

 Compliant with xHCI (Extensible Host Controller Interface) spec.

 Low Profile (RocketU 1142A only)

 Hot Swap and hot plug

 RoHS complaint

Operating System Support

 Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7 & 8 (32 and 64-bit versions)

 Linux OS support with xHCI driver of Kernel v2.6.31 or later

Note: xHCI is a computer interface specification that defines a register-level description of a Host

Controller for Universal Serial bus (USB), which is capable of interfacing to USB 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0

compatible devices. The specification is also referred to as the USB 3.0 Host Controller specification.