The Promise VTrak E-Class RAID Subsystem delivers outstanding performance, reliability and expansion for video and server applications. Configure up to sixteen 750GB 7200-rpm SATA or 300GB 15,000-rpm SAS drives in a 3U rack-optimised enclosure for up to 12TB of raw capacity on one or more RAID sets. Promise RAID is an ideal storage solution for direct-attached or SAN-based server and workstation applications, qualified for use with Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Final Cut Studio 2 and Xsan 2.
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PROMISE is committed to developing the best-in-class storage solutions for Mac OS X users. From the A/V professional needing enterprise class storage to the home user requiring external desktop storage, PROMISE provides proven storage solutions for your storage infrastructure.
The PROMISE VTrak for Mac is an enterprise class Fibre Channel storage system designed to provide the foundation for your storage infrastructure. Developed from over two decades of RAID experience, the PROMISE VTrak for Mac delivers performance, reliability, expandability and ease of use right out of the box for Mac users. Hardened with high availability features and blistering fast access to data, the PROMISE VTrak subsystems are qualified for use with Apple’s Xsan and Final Cut Studio products.
The PROMISE SmartStor DS4600 is a complete 4-bay Firewire/USB/eSATA RAID solution equipped with four 1TB 7200-rpm SATA drives and powerful hardware RAID engine for small servers, creative pro workstations, power users and consumers that need blazing fast external storage, increased data capacity and robust data protection.
Affordable Enterprise – Class Storage |
| The PROMISE VTrak E-Class RAID subsystem is a High Availability (HA) RAID solution developed to meet the needs of mission critical enterprise and power today’s demanding video workflows. At the heart of the PROMISE VTrak E-Class RAID subsystem is a mature RAID engine developed over the course of two decades and four generations of code that delivers cutting-edge performance and data integrity features rivaling any competitor. |
Video Performance |
| VTrak E-Class truly shines in video environments by delivering consistent low latency performance without dropping frames. Used with Xsan in film and video postproduction, VTrak E-Class can help increase user productivity by providing scalable performance and massive capacity to support today’s demanding video workflows. |
Data Center Performance |
| In a data center, where a single VTrak E-Class may serve multiple host computers simultaneously, it can deliver up to 1400MB/sec of proven read performance and 600MB/sec of write performance. Combined with Xsan, the solution can share multiple VTrak storage volumes over a high-speed Fibre Channel network providing for scalable performance as storage is added. |
Expandability |
| The uncontrolled growth of data creation requires massive capacity. With the PROMISE Vtrak J-Class expansion chassis, VTrak E-Class can be expanded to support up to 80 total drives for a total of 160TB of raw capacity using the latest 2TB SATA hard disk drives. |
Easy to Install and Manage |
| VTrak E-Class features Bonjour discovery and easy configuration through an embedded browser based management interface, WebPAM PROe, eliminating the need to install additional software. Simply open Safari, locate the unit you would like to manage, and in just a few minutes and less the ten clicks later, VTrak will up and running. The VTrak’s rich feature set also gives advanced users powerful tools to rapidly deploy multiple units tuned for applications like Xsan and Final Cut Studio. |
World Class Support |
| PROMISE and Apple support organizations work together to solve problems. A shared support database allows support tickets to be escalated across organizations. Mutual service level agreements between Apple and PROMISE allow customers to install VTrak E-Class units with the confidence that any issues they encounter will be resolved quickly and easily. |
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