Webpam Software; Key Features And Benefits - Promise Technology FastTrak TX2200 User Manual

WebPAM Software

The Web-based Promise Array Management (WebPAM) RAID management
software offers local management and monitoring of FastTrak disk arrays.
Browser-based GUI provides email notification of all major events or alarms,
memory cache management, logging for Windows servers, disk array
maintenance, rebuild, and access to all components in disk array (server,
controller, data channels, individual drives, and enclosure).
WebPAM also displays messages about critical events on the Host PC's monitor
screen even if your browser is closed.
For information on using WebPAM, refer to "Chapter 5: WebPAM" on page 43.

Key Features and Benefits

The following information offers an overview of the major features of your new
Promise FastTrak TX2200 and TX2300.
Features
Supports 66 MHz PCI bus
motherboards (automatically
backward compatible with 33
MHz PCI slots)
Supports:
data stripe (RAID 0) and
mirror (RAID 1)
TX 2300 supports Serial ATA
Specification II
TX 2200 supports Serial ATA
Specification 1.0a
Independent data channels
for Serial ATA drives
PCI Plug-n-Play, PCI Interrupt
sharing and coexists with
motherboard IDE and SCSI
controllers
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 300 MB/s from
Serial ATA drives to boost overall system
performance.
Burst data transfer rates up to 150 MB/s 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 up to 4 Serial ATA
drives on the FastTrak RAID Controller card
while still supporting 4 devices on motherboard
ATA controller.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Benefits