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Promise FastTrak TX4200


Author:  Tyler Curry
Date:  2005.10.08
Topic:  Storage
Provider:  Promise Technology Inc
Manufacturer:  Promise Technology Inc







Specifications

Disk Array Features

Device Support

  • 4 Serial ATA ports for up to 4 Serial ATA 1.5G devices

Supported RAID Levels

  • RAID 0/1/10/JBOD
  • RAID 0 - Data striped across 2-4 drives for increased performance
  • RAID 1 - Mirrored pairs of drives for data protection
  • RAID 10 - Data mirrored then striped across 4 drives, ultimate data protection and performance (provides a level of double drive failure protection)

Data Transfer Rate

  • Up to 266 MB per second (Performance may vary depending upon drive make, motherboard and PCI bus speed)

RAID Features

  • Data handling optimizations include elevator seek and load balancing
  • Supports hot-swap of failed drives
  • Offers transparent data recovery and rebuilds drive in background
  • Variable stripe size
  • Online Capacity Expansion - add capacity on the fly
  • RAID Level Migration - change array levels on the fly
  • MetaData on Disk (MDD) for drive roaming

Easy to Use

  • Quick initialization
  • Arrays are bootable with built-in BIOS
  • Upgrades your current disk drive to a RAID array by migrating existing data to the array

System Management

Management Tools

  • PAM (Promise Array Management) local and remote monitoring for Windows - monitors status of arrays, hard drives, and controller via TCP/IP; warns of drive failure; allows rebuilds of mirrored arrays; synchronizes data in fault-tolerant arrays; email notification for array events; S.M.A.R.T.-compatible status reporting

Notification

  • Email, audible, and visible alarms

Operating System

  • Support Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000
  • RedHat Linux; SuSE Linux
  • Linux partial open source code

Hardware

Enhanced SATA Support

  • Supports Serial ATA Spec 1.0 and Serial ATA II: Extensions to Serial ATA 1.0, Rev. 1.0, including
    - Native Command Queuing
    - Staggered Drive Spin-Up
    - HDD Activity Indication
  • Supports Serial ATA tagged command queuing (TCQ)

Multiple Controllers

  • Support Up to 2 controllers in the same system are supported

PCI Support

  • 32-bit / 66MHz PCI interface compliant to PCI Rev 2.3 (Backward-compatible with PCI 33)

HBA Features

  • Low-profile form factor
  • Flash upgradable for future updates
  • Supports ACPI (S1, S3, S4)

Physical and Environmental

  • Operating temperature: 32 to 122ºF (0 to 50ºC)
  • Relative humidity: 5%-95% non-condensing

Agency Certifications

  • UL, cUL, CE, FCC Class B, BSMI, MIC, C-Tick, VCCI

Limited Warranty

  • 3 Years


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