Promise Technology S150 user manual Key Features and Benefits, Features Benefits

Chapter 1: Introduction

Key Features and Benefits

The following information offers an overview of the major features of your new Promise FastTrak S150 TX4.

Advanced Hardware Design

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

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