Promise Technology SuperTrak EX8350 SUPERTRAK EX8350 ROHS Leaflet

Boosts Storage Performance and 
Protects User Data and Programs

Disk Drives

Double Distributed Parity

Data Stripe

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SuperTrak EX8350

• 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 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 10 -- Data mirrored then striped across up to eight drives, for double drive failure protection

• RAID 50 -- Two RAID 5 Arrays stripped together to improve preformance and provide some additional 

   data production

• JBOD Just a Bunch Of Drives: independent connected drives with no RAID interconnection

• 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

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 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

 

• 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

• 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)

• Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003

• Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Linux open source driver

• Intel IA32, EM64T, and AMD64

• Single and dual CPU servers

• Array configuration utility at the BIOS level 

• BIOS Boot Specification support: boot system from any array 

• Flash-upgradeable BIOS for future upgrades

• 8 x 39” (1000mm) serial ATA cables

• 6.6” x 2.71” (167.65 x 68.9 mm)

 

* Check www.promise.com for latest operating system drivers
©2006 Promise Technology, Inc. Specifications subject to change without notice.

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Moreover,  the  SuperTrak  EX  family 
supports industry standard SNMP so third 
party  management  application  integration 
is simplified.

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