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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.