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Promise SuperTrack EX8350 RAID Controller (SATA)
Notes: For more information, refer to the documentation
included on the ExpressBuilder DVD.
Features
8-Port Serial ATA (SATA) RAID controller with 3.0 Gb/s per port.
The SuperTrak EX8350 RAID controller provides support for SATA 3Gb/s drives
and and meets the needs of disk-to-disk backup, NAS storage, security and
surveillance, video editing, and near-line storage.
PCI-Express x 4 Host Bus Interface, allowing for up to 1GB throughput per
second.
Support RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and JBOD (depending on your server
configuration).
Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration to add capacity as needed.
Hardware-accelerated RAID 6 Capable for maximum reliability.
The SuperTrak EX8350 delivers multi-drive performance by taking advantage of
Intel's XScale 80333 I/O processor technology. It offers advanced RAID 6
technology for high level fault tolerance, allowing multiple simultaneous drive
failures without downtime or data loss.
Multiple logical drive support.
Automatic/manual rebuild of hot spare drive.
PerfectRAID technology for robust error handling and recovery.
Battery backup module optional.
Easy to manage through the Web-based Promise Array Manager (WebPAM)
software, a browser-based graphical user interface.
Specifications
Hardware Specifications.
- Eight SATA ports at 3.0Gb/s (300MB/sec).
- Storage capacity up to 16.0 terabytes (with eight 500GB drives x 4 controllers/
system).
- PCI-Express x 4 host bus interface.
- Intel IOP333 XScale I/O processor (500 MHz).
- 128MB DDR ECC on-board controller cache.
- Battery back-up module option.