FastTrak100 User Manual
Introduction
Thank you for your recent purchase.The PC which you are using either already contains a Promise Technology ® FastTrak100 RAID card installed by a
For PC owners wishing to install their Promise Technology® FastTrak100, proceed to the Getting Started section (see page 6).
For PCs with a Promise Technology® FastTrak100 card already installed, consult the Troubleshooting section of the manual (see page 71) if you are experiencing any difficulties with the hard drive being recognized by the card. If your operating system has crashed for some reason or you have downloaded updated drivers from the Promise website (www.promise.com), you may wish to reinstall software drivers for the FastTrak100 card. Use the Installing Drive rs section (see page 34).
What is the FastTrak100 RAID Card?
Promise designed its FastTrak100 card to provide a
With striping, identical drives can read and write data in parallel to increase performance. Mirroring increases read performance through load balancing and elevator seek while creating a complete backup of your files. Striping with mirroring offers both high read/write performance and error tolerance. Spanning uses the full capacity of all attached drives without requiring identical drive size, but offers no other RAID functionality.
A FastTrak100 striped array can double the sustained data transfer rate of Ultra ATA/100 drives. FastTrak100 fully supports Ultra ATA/100 specification of up to 100 MB/sec per drive, depending on individual drive specifications.
FastTrak100 also offers fault tolerant, data redundancy for
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