Key Features And Benefits - Promise Technology FastTrak S150 User Manual

Key Features and Benefits

The following information offers an overview of the major features of your new
Promise FastTrak S150 TX4.
Features
Supports 66MHz PCI bus
motherboards (automatically
backward compatible with
33MHz PCI slots)
Supports:
data striping (RAID 0),
mirroring (RAID 1), and
striping/mirroring (RAID 0+1)
Supports Serial ATA
Specification
Independent data channels
for Serial ATA drives
PCI Plug-n-Play, PCI
Interrupt sharing and
coexists with motherboard
IDE and SCSI controllers
Supports concurrent ATA
channel operation
Supports bus master
operation
Utilizes FastBuild™
automenu from the FastTrak
S150 TX4 onboard BIOS
Displays status and error
checking messages during
bootup
Advanced Hardware Design
Allows maximum data transfers of up to
266MB per second (133 MB/s in 33 MHz
slot) over the bus to dramatically reduce the
time to save and retrieve large files.
Provides dramatic increase in drive
performance and/or fault tolerant options.
Offers performance customization and data
rebuilds from the BIOS menu.
Burst data transfer rates up to 150MB/sec
from Serial ATA drives to boost overall
system performance.
Drives can multiply their data transfer
performance when striped together and each
drive uses a separate data channel.
Easy to install; supports 4 Serial ATA drives
on the FastTrak S150 TX4 while still
supporting 4 devices on motherboard ATA
controller.
Drive workload is distributed in parallel
between members of the array.
Allows multitasking during disk transfers that
increase CPU efficiency. The CPU is free to
process tasks during data transfers through
the PCI Bus to/from system memory.
Has "Auto Setup" option for quick and easy
array builds.
Notifies user of possible errors and allows for
recovery of mirrored drive arrays directly
from FastBuild™.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Benefits