User manual

SuperTrak EX Series User Manual
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Product Overview
SuperTrak EX4650, EX8650, EX8654, and EX8658 are SAS and SATA RAID
Controller cards. When used with WebPAM PRO software, the SuperTrak RAID
Controllers offer a feature-rich, secure and versatile enterprise-wide ATA RAID
solution. In addition, the SuperTrak EX Series supports RAID expansion. The
resulting RAID environment allows users and administrators to configure,
manage, and monitor everything from single logical drives on local systems to
logical drive networks residing in offsite locations.
The SuperTrak EX Series RAID Controller cards support SAS hard drives as well
as 1.5 Gb/s and 3.0 Gb/s SATA hard drives. At its core, both SuperTrak card
provides advanced RAID management functions: creating logical drives,
monitoring them, keeping them online and operating at optimum efficiency.
SuperTrak can also perform many other tasks, such as:
• The SuperTrak EX4650 Controller card supports up to four SAS or SATA
physical drives and RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 6, and 10. With a SAS expander
you can attach more drives, for RAID 50 and 60
• The SuperTrak EX8650, EX8654, and EX8658 Controller cards support up
to eight SAS or SATA physical drives and RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 6, 10, 50,
and 60. With a SAS expander you can attach more drives
• Set up a network of SuperTrak RAID servers (all running under different
RAID levels) and monitor those servers from any workstation on the network
• Create a series of SuperTrak RAID networks at any number of offsite
locations
• Monitor and repair SuperTrak RAID logical drives using the Internet from an
offsite location—all without compromising the integrity of secure servers
XOR Microprocessor
The SuperTrak EX Series Controllers have an onboard microprocessor for XOR
calculations, which off loads the parity calculation workload from the main CPU
and transfers it to the controller card, boosting the performance of the entire
system.
Hot-Swapping
Attached drives can be hot swapped when necessary.