User manual

Chapter 1: Introduction
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Should a drive that is part of a mirrored logical disk fail, FastTrak TX2200 and
TX4200 use the mirrored drive (which contains identical data) to assume all data
handling. When a new replacement drive is later installed, FastTrak TX2200 and
TX4200 rebuild data to the new drive from the mirrored drive to restore fault
tolerance.
FastTrak TX2200 and TX4200 bootable BIOS supports individual drives larger
than 137 GB. With FAT32 and NTFS partitioning, the logical disk can be
addressed as one large single volume.
Promise Array Management (PAM) Software
The Promise Array Management (PAM) software offers local management and
monitoring of FastTrak logical disks. Windows-based GUI provides email
notification of all major events/alarms, memory cache management, logging for
Windows servers, logical disk maintenance, rebuild, and access to all
components in logical disk (server, controller, data channels, individual drives,
and enclosure). For information on using PAM, refer to the PAM User Manual,
which is included on the CD that came with your FastTrak TX2200 and TX4200.
Or download it from the Promise website.
Key Features and Benefits
The following information offers an overview of the major features of your new
Promise FastTrak TX2200 and TX4200.
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 stripe (RAID 0), mirror
(RAID 1), and mirror/stripe
(RAID 10)
RAID 10 on 4200 only
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 1.0
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.