Promise Technology 150TX2 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 TX2 plus.

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:
data striping (RAID 0),
mirroring (RAID 1), and
striping/mirroring (RAID	Provides dramatic increase in drive
0+1).	performance and/or fault tolerant options.
Due to ATA drive limitations,	Offers performance customization and data
RAID 1 arrays consisting of	rebuilds from the BIOS menu.
a master and slave drive on
the parallel port are not
recommended.
Supports Serial ATA	Burst data transfer rates up to 150MB/sec
	from Serial ATA drives to boost overall
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	system performance.
FastTrak S150 TX2 supports	Burst data transfer rates up to 133MB/sec
Ultra DMA 6/5/4/3/2/1/0,	from Ultra ATA/133 drives to boost overall
DMA 2/1/0	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 2 Serial ATA drives
Interrupt sharing and	and 2 Parallel ATA drives on the FastTrak
coexists with motherboard	S150 TX2plus while still supporting 4 devices
IDE and SCSI controllers	on motherboard ATA controller.
Supports concurrent ATA	Drive workload is distributed in parallel
channel operation	between members of the array.
	Allows multitasking during disk transfers that
Supports IDE bus master	increase CPU efficiency. The CPU is free to
operation	process tasks during IDE data transfers
	through the PCI Bus to/from system memory.

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