Promise Technology SuperTrak EX4650 STEX4650B Dépliant

Milpitas, CA
Tel: 1-408-228-1400
E-mail: sales@promise.com  

Hsin-Chu, Taiwan
Tel: 886-3-578-2395
E-mail: sales@promise.com.tw  

Tokyo, Japan
Tel: 81-03-5333-3631
E-mail: sales-jp@promise.com.tw  

Beijing / Shanghai 
Tel: 86-10-8857-8085/ 86-21-6249-4192
Beijing E-mail: richardz@promisechina.com 
Shanghai E-mail: billyl@promisechina.com  

Dortmund, Germany
Tel: +49 2 31/56 76 48-0 
E-mail: sales-de@promise-emea.com   

Rome, Italy
Tel: 0039-06-3671-2626
E-mail: sales-it@promise-emea.com  

Son,  The Netherlands
Tel: 31-40-235-2600
E-mail: sales@promise-emea.com  

Workingham United Kingdom 
Tel: 44-0-870-112-59-77 
E-mail: sales@promise-emea.com 

Promise Technology,  with  a  track  record  of  over  19  years  of  storage  product  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, rack mount storage systems with FC/SAS/iSCSI and SCSI SAN and DAS storage network connectivity, NAS systems 
for SOHO and SATA ASICs. 

DSPN: G61300000000022-2       01/23/2008

Controller 
Configuration

•  Four internal SAS/SATA ports at 3Gb/s 

— One SAS SFF-8087 connector

•  667MHz Intel 81348 XScale I/O processor
•  Onboard 128MB ECC DDR II memory

•  Eight internal SAS/SATA ports at 3Gb/s 

— Two SAS SFF-8087 connectors

•  800MHz Intel 81348 XScale I/O processor
•  Onboard 256MB ECC DDR II memory

Hardware  
Features  

•  PCI-Express 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

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 disks
•  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

Web-based Promise 
Array Manager

•   Creates, deletes, expands, and converts disk arrays remotely
•   Media Patrol and 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
•   Remote firmware update

Operating System 
Support   

•   Microsoft Windows Vista, 2000, XP, Windows Server 2003
•   Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Miracle Linux, Fedora Core, Linux open source driver (32/64-bit)
•   FreeBSD, VMware 3.0.1/3.0.2

Platform Support

•   Intel IA32, EM64T, and AMD64

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 
•   I

2

C 

Cable in Kit

STEX4650
One 0.5-meter multi-lane cable  
(SFF-8087 to SFF-8087)

STEX8650
Two 0.5-meter multi-lane cables 
(SFF-8087 to SFF-8087)

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, cUL, CE, FCC Class B, BSMI, VCCI, MIC, C-tick

Limited Warranty

3 Years

Web-based Promise Array Manage- 
ment  (WebPAM  PRO)  software  
offers  professional  management  
tools in a simple-to-use, straight-
forward  format.  Array  configu-
rations,  management  and  moni-
toring  features  are  available  via  
the  web-based  interface.    More- 
over,  the  SuperTrak  EX  family  
supports industry standard SNMP  
and  CIM/WBEM  so  third  party  
management application integrati-
on is simplified.

Promise  Technolog y  is  the  
origina tor  of ATA  RAID  and  is  
a worldwide leader in SAS/SATA 
RAID  with  over  15  million  con-
trollers  shipped.  Using  SAS  and 
SATA  technology  to  design 
and  manuf acture  fast,  reliable,  
cost-effective  data  protection, 
Promise  is  the  preferred  choice 
for SAS/SATA host bus adapters, 
RAID controllers and SAS/SATA 
external storage systems.