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SuperTrak EX Series User Manual

Product Overview

SuperTrak EX4650, EX8650, EX8654, EX8658, and EX16650 are SAS and SATA RAID Controller cards. When used with WebPAM PRO software, the SuperTrak RAID Controllers offer a feature-rich, secure and versatile enterprise- wide RAID solution. In addition, the SuperTrak EX Series supports RAID expansion. The resulting RAID environment allows users and administrators to configure, manage, and monitor everything from single logical drives on local systems to logical drive networks residing in offsite locations.

The SuperTrak EX Series RAID Controller cards support SAS hard drives as well as 1.5 Gb/s and 3.0 Gb/s SATA hard drives. At its core, the SuperTrak card provides advanced RAID management functions: creating logical drives, monitoring them, keeping them online and operating at optimum efficiency. SuperTrak can also perform many other tasks, such as:

•The SuperTrak EX4650 Controller card supports up to four SAS or SATA physical drives and RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 6, and 10. With a SAS expander you can attach up to 24 drives, for RAID 50 and 60.

•The SuperTrak EX8650, EX8654, EX8658, and EX16650 Controller cards you can directly attach up to 16 SAS or SATA physical drives. With a SAS expander you can attach up to 128 drives. These Controllers also support RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60.

•Set up a network of SuperTrak RAID servers (all running under different RAID levels) and monitor those servers from any workstation on the network.

•Create a series of SuperTrak RAID networks at any number of offsite locations.

•Monitor and repair SuperTrak RAID logical drives using the Internet from an offsite location—all without compromising the integrity of secure servers.

XOR Microprocessor

The SuperTrak EX Series Controllers have an onboard microprocessor for XOR calculations, which off loads the parity calculation workload from the main CPU and transfers it to the controller card, boosting the performance of the entire system.

Hot-Swapping

Attached drives can be hot swapped when necessary.

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