FastTrak100 User Manual
Keys Features and Benefits
The following information offers an overview of the major features of your new Promise FastTrak100. It is divided into two areas: Advanced Hardware Design, and Compatibility.
Advanced Hardware Design
Features | Benefits |
Supports data striping (RAID 0), mirroring | Provides dramatic increase in drive |
(RAID 1), and striping/mirroring | performance and/or fault tolerant options. |
combination (RAID 0+1) | Offers performance customization and |
| data rebuilds from the BIOS menu. |
Supports Ultra DMA 5/4/3/2/1/0, | Burst data transfer rates up to 100MB/sec |
DMA 2/1/0 | from Ultra ATA/100 drives to boost overall |
| system performance. |
PCI | Easy to install; support four ATA drives on |
coexists with mainboard IDE controllers | the FastTrak100 while still supporting 4 |
| devices on motherboard ATA controller. |
Supports concurrent dual IDE controller | Drive workload is distributed in parallel |
operation | between members of the array. |
Supports IDE bus master operation | Allows multiasking during disk transfers |
| which increase CPU efficiency. The CPU |
| is free to process tasks during IDE data |
| transfers through the PCI Bus to/from |
| system memory. |
Utilizes FastBuildTM automenu from the | Offers |
FastTrak100 onboard BIOS | which can be optimized for Desktop, |
| Server, or A/V Editing. Has "Auto Setup" |
| option for quick and easy array builds. |
Displays status and error checking | Notifies user of possible errors and allows |
messages during bootup | for recovery of mirrored drive arrays directly |
| from FastBuildTM . |
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Employs the latest Promise PCI | Fully supports Ultra ATA/100 specifications |
Ultra ATA/100 ASIC technology. | with 100 MB/sec timing and CRC error- |
| checking at high speeds. |
Mirroring supports automatic background | Fault tolerance can be restored |
rebuilds | automatically without rebooting |
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