Promise Technology, Inc. announced immediate availability of its RAID 6 double parity disk storage architecture for the highest level of reliability and data protection.

RAID 6 is the latest technology for shared storage systems and high-capacity SATA disk arrays. Because RAID 6 performs two different parity computations rather than one, it provides an extra layer of redundancy for increased fault handling and can tolerate two simultaneous drive failures or errors without downtime or data loss, while other fault-tolerant RAID levels only support a single failure for a given array.

The first wave of products from Promise specifically designed to support RAID 6 includes its SuperTrak™ line of high-performance, 8-port SATA RAID controllers with hardware acceleration based on Intel^® IOP331 and IOP333 I/O processors with Intel XScale^® technology. These controllers are particularly well suited for high-capacity storage applications such as disk-to-disk backup, NAS and nearline storage, security/surveillance, and video editing.

Key Features of SuperTrak models: