Promise Technology FastTrak S150 - Manual (Page 7)

Chapter 1: Introduction
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Key Features and Benefits
The following information offers an overview of the major features of your new
Promise FastTrak S150 TX4.
Advanced Hardware Design
Features Benefits
Supports 66MHz PCI bus
motherboards (automatically
backward compatible with
33MHz PCI slots) Allows maximum data transfers of up to
266MB per second (133 MB/s in 33 MHz
slot) over the bus to dramatically reduce the
time to save and retrieve large files.
Supports:
data striping (RAID 0),
mirroring (RAID 1), and
striping/mirroring (RAID 0+1) Provides dramatic increase in drive
performance and/or fault tolerant options.
Offers performance customization and data
rebuilds from the BIOS menu.
Supports Serial ATA
Specification
Burst data transfer rates up to 150MB/sec
from Serial ATA drives to boost overall
system performance.
Independent data channels
for Serial ATA drives
Drives can multiply their data transfer
performance when striped together and each
drive uses a separate data channel.
PCI Plug-n-Play, PCI
Interrupt sharing and
coexists with motherboard
IDE and SCSI controllers Easy to install; supports 4 Serial ATA drives
on the FastTrak S150 TX4 while still
supporting 4 devices on motherboard ATA
controller.
Supports concurrent ATA
channel operation Drive workload is distributed in parallel
between members of the array.
Supports bus master
operation
Allows multitasking during disk transfers that
increase CPU efficiency. The CPU is free to
process tasks during data transfers through
the PCI Bus to/from system memory.
Utilizes FastBuild™
automenu from the FastTrak
S150 TX4 onboard BIOS
Has “Auto Setup” option for quick and easy
array builds.
Displays status and error
checking messages during
bootup Notifies user of possible errors and allows for
recovery of mirrored drive arrays directly
from FastBuild™.