Promise Technology SuperTrak EX8768 STEX8768 Dépliant

Web-based Promise Array Management  
(WebPAM PRO) software offers profes-
sional management tools in a simple-to-
use, straight forward format. Array con-
figurations, management and monitoring 
features are available via the web based 
interface.  Moreover,  the  SuperTrak 
EX  family  supports  industry  standard 
SNMP  and  CIM/WBEM  so  third  party 
management  application  integration  is 
simplified.

Promise Technology is the originator of 
ATA  RAID  and  is  a  worldwide  leader 
in SAS/SATA RAID with over 15 milli-
on  controllers  shipped.  Using  SAS  and 
SATA technology to design and manuf-
acture  fast,  reliable,  cost-effective  data 
protection,  Promise  is  the  perferred 
choice for SAS/SATA host bus adapters, 
RAID controllers and SAS/SATA exter-
nal storage systems.

Promise Technology, with a track record of over 20 years of storage products development and over 10 years experience in 

supplying high quality RAID storage products, is highly recognized as a premier high quality and dominant RAID storage supplier 
in the industry with a comprehensive storage product line offering including Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) 
PCIe RAID HBAs, desktop NAS and DAS systems, rack mount SAN and DAS storage subsystems with Fibre Channel, SAS, 
iSCSI, and SCSI connectivity, for SOHO, SMB, and enterprise customers.

DSPN: G61300000000029

Specifications

Model

STEX8760T

STEX8768

Features

Controller 

Configurations

• 8 Internal SAS/SATA ports at 3Gb/6Gb/s 

— Two SAS SFF-8087 connector

• 600MHz PMC Sierra 8011 I/O processor

• Onboard 512MB ECC DDR II memory

• 8 External SAS/SATA ports at 3Gb/6Gb/s 

— Two SAS SFF-8088 connectors

• 600MHz PMC Sierra 8011 I/O processor

• Onboard 512MB ECC DDR II memory

Hardware 

and Software 

Features

• PCI-Express 2.0 x8 host bus interface

• Hardware XOR engine to offload parity calculation

• Hardware RAID 6 accelerator

• Low-profile MD2 form factor

• Optional on-board battery backup unit for data retention up to 72 hours

• Forced Unit Access – ensures data has been written immediately to hard disk 

• Support Variable Sector enabling compatibility for 2TB+ volumes with Legacy OS such as 

Windows Server 2003

• Support 32 logical drives per array and 256 arrays per controller

Supported RAID 

Levels 

• RAID 0 – Data striped across 1-16 drives for increased performance, but no data protection

• RAID 1 – Mirrored pair of drives for data protection with increased read performance

• RAID 1E – Data mirroring extended to maximize balanced performance. Allows odd number 

drive mirroring

• RAID 5 – Striped parity on 3-16 drives, ultimate data protection, capacity and performance 

balance

• RAID 6 – Double parity for maximum data protection on 4-16 drives; allows double drive 

failures without downtime or data loss

• RAID 10 – Mirrored pair of RAID 0 for double drive failure protection; can be split into two 

RAID 0 sets

• RAID 50 – Striped multiple RAID 5 sets to improve performance and provide additional data 

protection

• RAID 60 – Striped multiple RAID 6 sets to allow multiple drive failures to achieve high-data 

availability

RAID Fault 

Tolerance and 

Robustness 

Features

• Multiple logical drive support enables combining different RAID levels on one set of disk

• Read Check table to avoid data read errors

• 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 data consistency

• Extensive SMART Monitoring and Status Reporting

• PDM (Predictive Data Migration)

Web-based 

Promise Array 

Manager

• Creates, deletes, expands, and converts disk arrays remotely

• Media Patrol on configured and spare hard drives 

• Redundancy Check scheduling

• Monitors drive, array, and enclosure status and provides online event logging

• Email notification of drive, array, controller or enclosure events 

(e.g. error or degrade conditions)

• Remote management based on industry standard CIM/WBEM

• Interface displays in 10 languages

• CLI support

• LIVE Firmware Update – update firmware using WebPAM Pro in the Operating System 

(Windows and Linux)

Operating System 

Support 

• Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7

• Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Miracle Linux, Fedora Core, Linux open source driver (32/64-bit)

• FreeBSD, VMware 3.5/4.0

Platform Support

• X86 and X64 for identification

SuperBuild™ 

BIOS 

• Array configuration utility at the BIOS level

• BIOS Boot specification support: boot system from any array

• Flash-upgradeable BIOS for future upgrades

Enclosure 

Management 

• SES-2 

• SGPIO 

• I²C 

Cable in Kit

STEX8760T

Two 0.5-meter multi-lane cable (4x SFF-

8482 SAS cables)

N/A

Operating 

Temperature

0 to 50°C (40°C w/ BBU)Relative humidity: 5%-95% non-condensing

Physical 

Dimensions

16.7 cm x 6.8 cm (6.6” x 2.7”) 

Agency 

Certifications

UL, FCC, CE, FCC Class B, BSMI, VCCI, KCC, C-tick

Limited Warranty

3 Year

Dortmund, Germany

Tel: +49 (0) 2 31/56 76 48 – 0

E-mail: sales-de@eu.Promise.com   

Beijing, China

Tel: 86-10-8857-8085 or 8095

E-mail:sales@cn.Promise.com

Tokyo, Japan

Tel: 81-03-6801-8063

E-mail: sales@jp.Promise.com  

Rome, Italy

Tel: 0039-06-3671-2626

E-mail: sales-it@eu.Promise.com  

Milpitas, CA

Tel: 1-408-228-1400

E-mail: sales@Promise.com  

Son,  The Netherlands

Tel: 31-40-235-2600

E-mail: sales@eu.Promise.com  

Hsin-Chu, Taiwan

Tel: 886-3-578-2395

E-mail: sales@tw.Promise.com

  

Workingham United Kingdom 

Tel: 44-0-870-112-59-77 

E-mail: sales@eu.Promise.com

Sydney, Australia

Tel: +61-2-8678-5336

E-mail: sales@au.Promise.com