User manual

Chapter 1: Introduction

Specifications

• Fits most 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch form factor SATA and SAS disk drives

• Occupies one 5.25-inch component bay in PC chassis

• Standard Serial ATA interface

• Built-in Array Status and Drive Activity LED indicators

• Dedicated cooling fan

• Durable metal construction

• Fully-ventilated drive carrier

• Unique handle design automatically disengages drive

• Housing Assembly dimensions (HWD):1.65 x 5.75 x 8.25 inches (42 x 146 x

209.6 mm.)

• Drive Carrier dimensions (HWD): 1.07 x 4.21 x 6.81 inches (27.2 x 107 x 173

mm)

• Operating temperatures: 32

° to 110°F (0°C to 45°C)

• Operating humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing

Key Features

• Supports 1.5 Gb/s and 3.0 Gb/s SATA disk drives

• Supports standard 7,200 rpm and 10,000 rpm SATA disk drives

• Supports standard 10,000 rpm and 15,000 rpm SAS disk drives

• Combine with Promise Serial ATA RAID products to provide striping (RAID

0), mirroring (RAID 1), distributed parity (RAID 5), and mirroring/striping

(RAID 10) at the hardware level

• Supports Promise Serial ATA RAID products

• Supports hot-swapping of disk drives

• Status LED indicates high-level condition of the disk drives

• Activity LED displays during normal disk drive activity

• Allows auto-sensing of SATA/SAS drive and implementation of 150MB/sec

or 300MB/sec burst transfers

• Supports Web-Based Promise Array Management (WebPAM) software

when using a Promise RAID controller, such as FastTrak SX4300

• Supports up to eight daisy-chained SuperSwap 1600 enclosures