Promise Technology EX8650 Computer Hardware User Manual


 
SuperTrak EX 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 EX4650, EX4650A, EX8650, and EX8650A.
Advanced Hardware Design
Features Benefits
Supports multi-lane PCIe bus
motherboards
Allows maximum data transfers of up to 2.5 Gb/s
in both directions simultaneously to dramatically
reduce the time to save and retrieve large files.
EX4650 and EX4650A
support: RAID 0, 1, 1E, 5, 6,
and 10. RAID 50 and 60 with
SAS Expander.
Provides dramatic increase in drive performance
and/or fault tolerant options. Offers performance
customization and data rebuilds from the BIOS
menu.
EX8650 and EX8650A
support: RAID 0, 1, 1E, 5, 6,
10, 50, and 60
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 16 arrays per controller,
Up to 32 logical drives per array,
Up to 128 physical drives per array
Up to 256 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.