FastTrak SX4300, SX8300 User Manual
Product Overview
FastTrak SX4300 and SX8300 are Serial ATA RAID controllers. When used with WebPAM software, the FastTrak RAID Controllers offer a
The FastTrak SX4300 and SX8300 RAID Controller cards support 1.5 Gb/s and
3.0Gb/s Serial ATA hard drives. At their core, all both FastTrak cards provide advanced RAID management functions: creating logical drives, monitoring them, keeping them online and operating at optimum efficiency. FastTrak can also perform many other tasks, such as:
•Create logical drives at various RAID levels (0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD), depending on the application being used
•Set up a network of FastTrak RAID servers (all running under different RAID levels) and monitor those servers from any workstation on the network
•Create a series of FastTrak RAID networks at any number of offsite locations
•Monitor and/or repair FastTrak RAID logical drives using the Internet from an offsite
XOR Acceleration
The FastTrak SX4300 and SX8300 Controllers have a Hardware XOR accelerator, which offloads the parity calculation workload from the main CPU and transfers it to the controller card, boosting the performance of the entire system.
Hot-Swapping
Each FastTrak SX4300 can support up to four Serial ATA disk drives while each FastTrak SX8300 can support up to eight Serial ATA disk drives. With either Controller card you can configure the drives as RAID levels 1, 5, or 10. Attached drives can be hot swapped when used with the optional Promise SuperSwap drive enclosures.
2