Product Description:
Promise Storage Controllers & Internal Drive Enclosure Products
SAS/SATA RAID Controllers SuperTrak EX Lines EX4650

Mfg. Part Number:
Promise STEX4650, Retail Kit
One 0.5m SFF-8087 multi-lane cables included
RoHS Compliant

Features & Benefits:
SuperTrak EX SAS and SATA RAID controllers are stable, robust platforms that can be trusted. Built on a leading edge hardware design, supported by a RAID stack developed and refined over more than 15 years, they incorporate a single chip solution for optimized reliability with up to 256MB data cache onboard, an available 72 hour battery backup module, and a x8 PCI-Express interface to the host.
The SuperTrak EX line of SAS and SATA RAID controllers, with RAID 5 and RAID 6 support, protects your mission critical data by delivering the data protection features you expect from leadership solutions. Features such as global and dedicated hot spares, RAID level migration, media patrol, read check table, and bad sector remapping offer the most reliable data protection solutions in their class.

Enterprise-Class RAID Reliability

Easy Management

SAS RAID Controllers for Performance Hungry Storage

Specifications:

Controller Configuration
One SAS SFF-8087 connector, Support four internal SAS/SATA ports at 3Gb/s.
667MHz Intel 81348 XScale I/O processor
Onboard 128MB 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, 1, 1E, 5, 6, 10, 50, & 60.

RAID Fault Tolerance & 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, enclosure status, and provides online event logging.
Email notification of drive, array, controller or enclosure events.
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 2C

Physical Dimensions
16.7cm x 6.8cm (6.6” x 2.7”)

Agency Certifications
UL, cUL, CE, FCC Class B, BSMI, VCCI, MIC, C-tick.