Promise Technology FAST TRAK100TM Defining Typical Application Usage, Using a Hot Spare Drive

FastTrak100 User Manual

Defining Typical Application Usage

Allows the user to choose the type of PC usage that will be performed in order to optimize how FastTrak100 handles data blocks to enhance performance. Your choice will determine the block size used. You may choose from: A/V Editing (for audio/video applications, or any similar application that requires large file transfers), Server (for numerous small file transfers), or Desktop (a combination of large and small file sizes).

Using a “Hot” Spare Drive

If a third drive is attached as a “Slave” and is not assigned to a mirrored two-drive disk array (one optimized for “Security”), it will be recognized as a Spare Drive. Such a drive is immediately used as a “standby” replacement. It is automatically added to an array once a disk member of the array has been detected as “failed.” To restore fault tolerance as quickly as possible, FastTrak100 begins to perform an automatic data rebuild on the “spare” drive in the background without the need to restart the system. At a later time, the failed drive can be physically removed from the FastTrak100 card and an extra drive added in its place to function as the “spare” drive.

Creating Multiple Disk Arrays

1.If you plan to create multiple arrays, attach only the drives necessary to create the first disk array and complete the <1> Auto Setup.

2.Install the additional drives needed for the second array and again use the <1> Auto Setup.

NOTE: If you wish to customize the settings of individual disk arrays (such as block size), you must manually create disk arrays with the Define Array <3> option from the Main Menu.

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