The Promise VTrak E-Class RAID subsystem delivers outstanding performance, reliability, and expansion for video and server applications. Configure with up to sixteen 7200-rpm SATA or 15,000-rpm SAS drive drives in a 3U rack-optimized enclosure provide up to 12TB of raw capacity for assignment to one or more RAID sets supporting all the major RAID levels including hardware RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 6.

The high-availability design of the Promise VTrak E-Class RAID subsystem provides dual active/active RAID controllers with two 4Gb Fibre Channel ports and 2GB of cache per controller, redundant power supplies, and redundant cooling modules. An ideal storage solution for direct attached or SAN-based server and workstation applications, the Promise VTrak E-Class RAID subsystem is qualified with Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Final Cut Studio 2, and Xsan 2.

Promise RAID Subsystem Features

• 3U rack-optimized enclosure with 16 hot-swappable drive bays
• Dual redundant active/active controllers
• 2GB DDR ECC cache per controller
• 4Gb/s Fibre Channel ports (2 per controller)
• RAID Levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60
• External SAS port (1 per controller) for storage expansion using the Promise VTrak expansion chassis
• WebPAM PROe web-based management interface
• Qualified with Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, and Xsan 2; Apple MPIO capable

Requirements: You must configure your Xserve with an Apple Fibre Channel Dual- or Quad-channel card with a PCI Express riser for expansion slot 1 or 2.

Promise RAID Subsystem External Storage

• Promise VTrak E-Class 8x 750 SATA RAID subsystem (6TB)
• Promise VTrak E-Class 16x 750 SATA RAID subsystem (12TB
• Promise VTrak E-Class 16x 300 SAS RAID subsystem (4.8TB)