Promise Technology EX8650 Key Features and Benefits, Advanced Hardware Design Features Benefits

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	Allows maximum data transfers of up to 2.5 Gb/s
motherboards	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,	Provides dramatic increase in drive performance
and 10. RAID 50 and 60 with
SAS Expander.	and/or fault tolerant options. Offers performance
	customization and data rebuilds from the BIOS
EX8650 and EX8650A
	menu.
support: RAID 0, 1, 1E, 5, 6,
10, 50, and 60
Supports Serial ATA	Burst data transfer rates up to 300 MB/s from
Specification II	Serial ATA drives to boost overall system
	performance.
Supports Serial Attached	Burst data transfer rates up to 300 MB/s from
SCSI Specification	SAS drives to boost overall system
	performance.
Independent data channels	Drives can multiply their data transfer
for SATA and SAS drives	performance when striped together and each
	drive uses a separate data channel.
Supports multiple logical	Up to 16 arrays per controller,
drives on the same physical	Up to 32 logical drives per array,
drives	Up to 128 physical drives per array
	Up to 256 logical drives per controller.
Supports online logical drive	Add disk drives to the array without affecting
expansion	data availability.
Supports online logical drive	Change RAID level without affecting data
migration	availability.
Utilizes SuperBuild™	Has “Auto Setup” option for quick and easy
automenu from the SuperTrak	logical drive builds.
onboard BIOS

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