Steps For Installing Your Serial Ata/Ide Raid; Step 1: Unpacking Your Fasttrak 376 - CHAINTECH 7NJS Ultra User Manual

mechanical failure (e.g. spindle failure) or does not respond, the remaining drive
will continue to function. This is called Fault Tolerance. If one drive has a
physical sector error, the mirrored drive will continue to function.
With striping, identical drives can read and write data in parallel to increase
performance. Mirroring increases read performance through load balancing and
elevator sorting while creating a complete backup of your files.
FastTrak 376 striped arrays can double the sustained data transfer rate of Serial
ATA/150 and Ultra ATA/133 drives. FastTrak 376 fully supports Serial
ATA/150 and Ultra ATA/133 specification of up to 150MB/sec per drive,
depending on individual drive specifications.
FastTrak 376 also offers fault tolerant, data redundancy for entry-level
network file servers or simply for desktop PC users wanting to continually
protect valuable data on their PC. FastTrak 376 offers RAID 1 mirroring (for two
drives) to protect data. Should a drive that is part of a mirrored array fail,
FastTrak 376 uses the mirrored drive (which contains identical data) to assume
all data handling. When a new replacement drive is later installed, FastTrak 376
rebuilds data to the new drive from the mirrored drive to restore fault tolerance.
These 3 channels (it might be channel 3, 4, 5 on MB) that PDC20376 support
only connect HDD. FastTrak 376 don't support ATAPI device. Please move
your ATAPI device to onboard IDE channel.

Steps for Installing your Serial ATA/IDE RAID

Step 1: Unpacking Your FastTrak 376

When you receive the FastTrak 376, the package should contain the items
listed below:
FastTrak 376 Driver
If ANY of the contents are missing or appear to be damaged, please contact
your dealer or distributor immediately.
Warning:
The FastTrak 376 Controller, like other parts of your system, is subject
to damage by static electricity. Be sure that you're properly grounded
(Promise recommends that you wear an anti-static strap or touch a grounded
object) and that you unplug your system before installing FastTrak 376.
Serial ATA/IDE RAID
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