Performance Tips - Promise Technology FastTrak S150 User Manual

FastTrak S150 TX4 User Manual

Performance Tips

Here are some tips that may optimize performance in a RAID 0 striped array. If
you are using an audio/video-editing card, we also recommend reviewing your
card's documentation for additional information.
Use FastTrak S150 TX4 as D: or other non-bootable drive in a Striped Array
For Audio/Video editing, keep the original system boot drive on the standard IDE
controller as C: drive. Partitioning software such as FDISK will see the array as
one physical drive, D: or later. This will prevent file fragmentation and provide
better accessibility to the array.
Optimize Array for "Performance"
The Promise FastBuild BIOS Utility autosetup menu allows optimizing the array
for Performance applications such as A/V Editing. The default Performance
setting (Striping) selects a Stripe Block size of 64. This larger block size is
recommended for the data streaming requirements of A/V editing. You may
select an even larger block size in manual mode (see Chapter 3).
FastTrak (tm) / FastTrak S150 TX4 (tm) BIOS Version 1.xx (Build xxxx)
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Optimize Array for:
Mode................................................................ Stripe
Stripe Block Size....................................................64
Drive used in Array ..................................................2
Array Disk Capacity .......................................160048
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