User manual

SuperTrak TX Series User Manual
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Key Features and Benefits
The following information offers an overview of the major features of the Promise
SuperTrak TX8650 and TX8658.
Advanced Hardware Design
Features Benefits
Supports PCIe x8 bus
motherboards
Allows maximum data transfers of up to 2 GB/s
in both directions simultaneously to dramatically
reduce the time to save and retrieve large files.
Supports RAID 0, 1, and 10 Provides dramatic increase in drive performance
and/or fault tolerant options. Offers performance
customization and data rebuilds from the BIOS
menu.
Supports Serial ATA
Specification II
Burst data transfer rates up to 300 MB/s from
Serial ATA drives to boost overall system
performance.
Supports Serial Attached
SCSI Specification
Burst data transfer rates up to 300 MB/s from
SAS drives to boost overall system
performance.
Independent data channels
for SATA and SAS drives
Drives can multiply their data transfer
performance when striped together and each
drive uses a separate data channel.
Supports multiple logical
drives on the same physical
drives
Up to 8 logical drives per array,
Up to 16 arrays per controller,
Up to 116 physical drives per controller,
Up to 16 logical drives per controller.
Supports online logical drive
expansion
Add disk drives to the array without affecting
data availability.
Supports online logical drive
migration
Change RAID level without affecting data
availability.
Utilizes SuperBuild
automenu from the SuperTrak
onboard BIOS
Has “Auto Setup” option for quick and easy
logical drive builds.
Displays status and error
checking messages during
bootup
Notifies user of possible errors and allows for
recovery of mirrored drive logical drives directly
from SuperBuild™.
Supports S.M.A.R.T.
monitoring and reporting
Polls status at set intervals, reports through
WebPAM PRO.