Promise Technology 150TX2 - 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 TX2 plus.
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).
Due to ATA drive limitations,
RAID 1 arrays consisting of
a master and slave drive on
the parallel port are not
recommended.
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.
FastTrak S150 TX2 supports
Ultra DMA 6/5/4/3/2/1/0,
DMA 2/1/0 Burst data transfer rates up to 133MB/sec
from Ultra ATA/133 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 2 Serial ATA drives
and 2 Parallel ATA drives on the FastTrak
S150 TX2plus 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 IDE bus master
operation
Allows multitasking during disk transfers that
increase CPU efficiency. The CPU is free to
process tasks during IDE data transfers
through the PCI Bus to/from system memory.