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Fast Trak TX2200 / TX4200 User Manual

Gigabyte Rounding feature permits the installation of a replacement drive that is

slightly smaller (within 1 gigabyte) than the remaining working drive.

This can be helpful in the event that a drive fails and an exact replacement model

is no longer available. For example, with the Gigabyte Rounding feature enabled,

the remaining working drive can be 80.5 GB and the replacement drive can be

80.3, since both are rounded down to 80 GB.

Number of Disk Drives

The number of disk drives you add to your logical disk depends on the number of

available channels on your FastTrak card and the type of logical disk you want to

create.

This chart shows your FastTrak Controller, the number of drives and the RAID

Levels it supports

This chart below shows the correlation between RAID Levels and the other

features and options:

New Drives versus Drives with Data

When you build a logical disk using new disk drives, you do not need to copy data

or perform quick initiation.

When you build a logical disk with disk drives that have been used before, but

you do not want to keep the data they contain, choose the quick initialization

option.

In some cases, you will have a disk drive full of data and want to make a mirror

(RAID 1) logical disk in order to have a full copy. See Add Fault Tolerance to

Existing Drive on page 30.

FastTrak Card No. Drives RAID Levels

TX2200 2 0, 1

TX4200 4 0, 1, 10

RAID Level No. Drives Stripe Block Size Gigabyte Rounding

0 Stripe 1 to 4 32, 64 (default), 128 Not available

1 Mirror 2 Not available ON (default) or OFF

10 Mirror/Stripe 4 32, 64 (default), 128 ON (default) of OFF