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

SuperTrak EX Series User Manual

Browser Support

On the Host PC where you install the SuperTrak controller and WebPAM PRO, you must have one of the following browsers:

•Internet Explorer

•Firefox

•Netscape Navigator

If you do not have one of the above browsers, install the browser first and make it the default browser. Then install WebPAM PRO.

Key Features and Benefits

The following information offers an overview of the major features of the Promise SuperTrak EX4650, EX8650, EX8654, EX8658, and EX16650.

Advanced Hardware Design
Features	Benefits
Supports PCIe x8 bus	Allows maximum data transfers of up to 2 GB/s
motherboards	in both directions simultaneously to dramatically
	reduce the time to save and retrieve large files.
EX4650 supports: RAID 0, 1,
1E, 5, 6, and 10. RAID 50 and	Provides dramatic increase in drive performance
60 with SAS Expander.	and/or fault tolerant options. Offers performance
EX8650, EX8654, EX8658,	customization and data rebuilds from the BIOS
and EX16650 support: RAID	menu.
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 32 logical drives per array,
drives on the same physical	Up to 128 arrays drives per controller,
drives	Up to 128 physical drives per controller,
	Up to 256 logical drives per controller.

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