Promise FastTrak TX4200

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

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