Installing The Disk Drives - Promise Technology FAST TRAK SX4030 User Manual

FastTrak SX4030, SX4060, S150 SX4-M User Manual

Installing the Disk Drives

The FastTrak S150 SX4 RAID Controller card supports only Serial ATA hard
drives. The FastTrak SX4030 and SX4060 RAID Controller cards support only
(Parallel) ATA disk drives. For optimal performance, install disk drives of the
same model and capacity. The drives' matched performance allows the array to
function better as a single drive.
If you are striping (RAID 0) for performance, use up to four new drives. If
mirroring (RAID 1) for protection, you can use two new drives OR use an existing
drive and a new drive (the new drive must be the same size or larger than the
existing drive). If you are planning a RAID 5 array, use three or four new drives.
1. SX4030 / SX4060 only: Set your hard drives to Master, Cable-Select or
Single (depending on drive specification). The Serial ATA Specification
excludes Master/Slave settings, so these do not apply to the S150 SX4 card.
2. Install the hard drives into the hard drive bays of your system.
If you wish to include your current bootable Serial ATA drive using
the Windows operating system as part of a bootable Mirrored
(RAID 1) array on your FastTrak card, do NOT connect the hard
drive to the FastTrak yet. You MUST install the Windows driver
software first onto this drive while it is still attached to your existing
hard drive controller.
Use of removable hard drive enclosures other than Promise
Technology's SuperSwap is not supported and may result in
performance loss or other undesired results.
Important
Caution
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