Promise SuperTrak EX8350 8-Port SATA300/150 RAID 0/1/5 Controller, 128MB - PCI-Ex4

SuperTrak® EX8350 Highlights

8-Port Serial ATA (SATA) RAID controller with 3.0 Gb⁄s per port
PCI-Express x 4 Host Bus Interface
Support RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6*, 10, and JBOD
Linux open source driver support
Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration to add capacity as needed
Hardware- accelerated RAID 6 Capable for maximum reliability
Intel IOP333 XScale I⁄O processor
Multiple logical drive support
Automatic⁄manual rebuild of hot spare drive
PerfectRAID™ technology for robust error handling and recovery
Battery backup module optional
High Performance SATA 3Gb⁄s RAID Controller for Servers and Storage Systems
The SuperTrak EX8350 RAID controller is a cost-effective high-performance, high-capacity solution for internal storage systems. With support for SATA 3Gb⁄s drives and Promise`s proven RAID engine, the SuperTrak EX8350 RAID controller is designed to meet the needs of disk-to-disk backup, NAS storage, security and surveillance, video editing, and near-line storage.

Enterprise-class RAID Features and Management
The SuperTrak EX8350 RAID controllers include advanced RAID features for greater data protection and management. Greater than 2 TB support allows for very large arrays in 64-bit platforms. An enhanced RAID platform with advanced features such as multiple logical drive support, media patrol™, read check table and bad sector remapping protects your storage investment. Equipped with the new web-based Promise Array Manager (WebPAM™) software, SuperTrak EX8350 is extremely easy to manage for both Windows and Linux environments through a browser-based graphical user interface.

SATA 3Gb⁄s Support
The SuperTrak EX8350 controller supports SATA 3Gb⁄s drives and conforms to Serial ATA II, Extensions to SATA 1.0 specification with Native Command Queuing and Disk Activity LED headers support. Command Queuing increases I⁄O performance by intelligently reordering data requests so that data can be accessed more quickly.

Supports PCI-Express for High Throughput
The SuperTrak EX8350 takes advantage of the high throughput performance of the PCI-Express host bus interconnect. Using the x 4 PCI-Express bus, the controller is capable of achieving throughput of up to 1GB per second.

Intelligent RAID Architecture
The SuperTrak EX8350 delivers exceptional multi-drive performance by taking advantage of Intel`s XScale 80333 I⁄O processor technology. It offers advanced RAID 6 technology for high level fault tolerance, allowing multiple simultaneous drive failures without downtime or data loss.

For more information about RAID 6, check out our case study with Intel Corporation -"Intelligent RAID 6 Uses Dual Independent Parity
Coding Schemes for Extra Data Protection"

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 0,1,5,6,10, JBOD
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
SuperBuild™ BIOS

Array configuration utility at the BIOS level
BIOS Boot Specification support: boot sy