Promise Technology 150TX2 user manual Performance Tips, Optimize Array for Performance

FastTrak S150 TX2plus User Manual

Performance Tips

Here are some tips that may optimize performance in a RAID 0 striped array. If you are using an audio/video-editing card, we also recommend reviewing your card’s documentation for additional information.

Use FastTrak S150 TX2plus as D: or other non-bootable drive in a Striped Array

For Audio/Video editing, keep the original system boot drive on the standard IDE controller as C: drive. Partitioning software such as FDISK will see the array as one physical drive, D: or later. This will prevent file fragmentation and provide better accessibility to the array.

Optimize Array for “Performance”

The Promise FastBuild BIOS Utility autosetup menu allows optimizing the array for Performance applications such as A/V Editing. The default Performance setting (Striping) selects a Stripe Block size of 64. This larger block size is recommended for the data streaming requirements of A/V editing. You may select an even larger block size in manual mode (see Chapter 3).

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[ Auto Setup Options Menu ]

Optimize Array for:	Performance
[ Auto Setup Configuration ]
Mode	Stripe
Stripe Block Size	64
Drive used in Array	2
Array Disk Capacity	160048
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