Technical Details for Promise SuperTrak EX8300

Promise SuperTrak EX8300 ... With support for SATA 3Gb/s drives and Promise's proven RAID engine, the SuperTrak EX8300 RAID controller is designed to meet the needs of disk-to-disk backup, NAS storage, security and surveillance, video editing, and near-line storage.

The SuperTrak EX8300 RAID controllers include advanced RAID features for greater data protection and management. Greater than 2 TB support allows for very large arrays in 64-bit platforms. An enhanced RAID platform with advanced features such as multiple logical drive support, media patrol, read check table and bad sector remapping protects your storage investment. Equipped with the new web-based Promise Array Manager (WebPAM) software, SuperTrak EX8300 is extremely easy to manage for both Windows and Linux environments through a browser-based graphical user interface.

The SuperTrak EX8300 controller supports SATA 3Gb/s drives and conforms to Serial ATA II, Extensions to SATA 1.0 specification with Native Command Queuing and Disk Activity LED headers support. Command Queuing increases I/O performance by intelligently reordering data requests so that data can be accessed more quickly.

The SuperTrak EX8300 delivers exceptional multi-drive performance by taking advantage of Intel's XScale 80331 I/O processor technology. It offers advanced RAID 6 technology for high level fault tolerance, allowing multiple simultaneous drive failures without downtime or data loss.