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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
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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. | |
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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. | |
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Supports Serial ATA | Burst data transfer rates up to 150MB/sec | |
from Serial ATA drives to boost overall | ||
Specification | ||
system performance. | ||
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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. | ||
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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. | |
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Supports concurrent ATA | Drive workload is distributed in parallel | |
channel operation | between members of the array. | |
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| 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. | |
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Utilizes FastBuild™ | Has “Auto Setup” option for quick and easy | |
automenu from the FastTrak | ||
array builds. | ||
S150 TX4 onboard BIOS | ||
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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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