Technical Details for Promise SuperTrak EX16650

Promise SuperTrak EX16650 ... 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 512MB data cache on-board and an 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.

The SuperTrak SAS and SATA RAID controllers are high-performance solutions delivering reliability to demanding data-intensive applications such as tiered storage environments, security and surveillance, video editing, and digital content creation. Support for both SAS and SATA 3Gbps drives on the same controller maintains configuration optimization for performance based on the characteristics of SAS and SATA drives available today. It's like getting SAS for free.