Promise SuperTrak EX8350

Controller 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 • 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 — Data striped across 2-8 drives for increased performance but no data protection • RAID 1 — Mirrored pairs of drives for data protection with increased read performance • RAID 5 — Striped parity on 3-8 drives, ultimate data protection, capacity and performance balance • RAID 6 — Double parity for maximum data protection; allow multiple simultaneous drive failures without downtime or data loss (RAID 6 upgrade available in late 2005) • RAID 10 — Data mirrored then striped across up to eight drives, for double drive failure protection • JBOD — Just a Bunch Of Drives: independent connected drives with no RAID interconnection 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 “on the fly” 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 performance • 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) Operating Systems* • Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003 • Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Linux open source driver Platform Support • Intel IA32, EM64T, and AMD64 • Single and dual CPU servers SuperBuild™ BIOS • Array configuration utility at the BIOS level • BIOS Boot Specification support: boot system from any array • Flash-upgradeable BIOS for future upgrades Cable in Kit • 8 x 39" (1000mm) serial ATA cables Physical Dimension • 6.6" x 2.71" (167.65 x 68.9 mm) Limited Warranty 3 Years