User`s guide

User Guide
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- Four controller support within a system.
- Low profile form factor ideal for 1U/2U server.
- Combine with the SuperSwap 4100 for an advanced internal storage system.
■ RAID Levels Supported.
- RAID 0,1,5,6,10, 50 and JBOD.
■ RAID Fault Tolerance and Robustness Features.
- Multiple logical drive support enables combining different RAID levels on one
set of disks.
- Read Check table to avoid data read errors.
- Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration to add capacity as needed.
- PerfectRAID technology for error handling and recovery of fatal, media and
disk errors.
- Support hot swap of failed drives and hot spares.
- Automatic/manual rebuild of hot spare drive.
- Background initialization for instant drive availability.
- Supports bad sector remapping.
- Variable stripe block size support to meet various application requirements.
- Synchronization can be scheduled periodically for RAID array data consistency.
■ Advanced Performance Features.
- Multiple caching policy support.
- Packet commands and interrupt coalescing minimize interrupts for better per-
formance.
- Elevator seek streamlines commands based upon data location on the disk.
■ Web-based Promise Array Manager.
- Creates, deletes, expands, and converts disk arrays remotely.
- Array synchronization and rebuild scheduling.
- Monitors drive, array, and enclosure status and provides online event logging.
- E-mail notification of drive, array, controller or enclosure events (e.g. error or
degrade conditions).
■ SuperBuild BIOS.
- Array configuration utility at the BIOS level.
- BIOS Boot Specification support: boot system from any array.