SOYO SY-K7V DRAGON Plus! User Manual page 100

Introduction
WHAT IS THE FASTTRAK100-LITE RAID CONTROLLER?
FastTrak100-Lite provides a cost-effective, high performance onboard RAID
solution that adds performance and/or reliability to PC desktops and/or servers
using Ultra ATA/100, Ultra ATA/66, or EIDE drives.
FastTrak100-Lite supports striping (RAID 0) or mirroring (RAID 1) for master only.
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.
A FastTrak100-Lite striped array can double the sustained data transfer rate of
Ultra ATA/100 drives. FastTrak100-Lite fully supports Ultra ATA/100 specification
of up to 100 MB/sec per drive, depending on individual drive specifications.
FastTrak100-Lite 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. FastTrak100-Lite offers RAID 1 mirroring (for two drives) to
protect data. Should a drive that is part of a mirrored array fail, FastTrak100-Lite
uses the mirrored drive (which contains identical data) to assume all data handling.
When a new replacement drive is later installed, FastTrak100-Lite rebuilds data to
the new drive from the mirrored drive to restore fault tolerance.
FastTrak100-Lite's bootable BIOS supports individual drives larger than 8.4GB.
With FAT32 and NTFS partitioning, the array can be addressed as one large single
volume.
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