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Infortrend’s SMART technologies embody the knowledge base derived from years of experiences working with customers in all aspects of disk array applications. From dealing with individual disk drive behaviors, adapting to I/O characteristics, to coping with changes in operation environments, we provide an abundance of functionality and tunable parameters that best fit your requirements. 

A few examples are shown below:

1. Disk Clone: Individual data drives can be cloned for physically relocating disk drives or for safe-keeping purposes when an administrator discovers symptoms of disk drive defects.
2. Smart bypass: In special applications such as video streaming, bad media on drives can cause observable delays. The smart bypass quickly determines after a few mini-seconds that drive retries may ensue, and turns to other member drives for data. Instead of waiting for timeout, I/Os are quickly satisfied.
3. Smart cache: With intelligent algorithms set for the application purposes, read-aheads can be performed, temporarily put in cache, and quickly returned to the host far faster than the actual I/O hits.  

There are SMART options deliberately designed for various applications and require understanding of application demands.