Promise Technology SX8300, FASTTRAK SX4300 user manual Installing the Disk Drives, RAID Jbod

Chapter 2: Installation

3.Install the FastTrak card into the open slot (above).

4.Fasten the FastTrak card bracket to the system case (above).

5.Attach your system case’s 2- or 4-pin LED cable to the LED connector on the FastTrak card (see the Figures below).

Installing the Disk Drives

Important

If you wish to include your current bootable Serial ATA drive using the Windows operating system as part of a bootable Mirrored (RAID 1) logical drive on your FastTrak card, do NOT connect the disk drive to the FastTrak yet. You MUST install the Windows driver software first onto this drive while it is still attached to your existing disk drive controller.

The FastTrak SX-Series RAID Controller card supports 1.5-Gb/s and 3.0-Gb/s Serial ATA disk drives. For optimal performance, install disk drives of the same model and capacity. The drives’ matched performance allows the logical drive to function better as a single drive.

Level	Number of Drives
RAID 0	2 or more
RAID 1	2 only
RAID 5	3 or more
RAID 10	4 only
RAID 50	6 or 8
JBOD	1 or more

The table above shows the number of drives required for each RAID level. If you plan to create a mirror (RAID 1) for protection, you can use two new drives OR use an existing drive and a new drive. The new drive must be the same size or larger than the existing drive.

1.Install the disk drives into the disk drive bays of your system.

If you are using SuperSwap Enclosures, the SMBus ID of each disk drive must match the Channel number.

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