Promise Technology SuperSwap 4600 - Manual (Page 10)

SuperSwap 4600 User Manual
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• 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
• Global LED displays high-level condition of the SuperSwap enclosure
• Status LEDs indicate high-level condition of the disk drives
• Activity LEDs display during normal disk drive activity
• Allows auto-sensing of SATA/SA drives 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 two daisy-chained SuperSwap 4600 enclosures
Check the Fit of Your SATA Disk Drives
Some of the early 3.5-inch, 1.5 Gb/s SATA disk drives may not be compatible
with SuperSwap due to the mechanical design of the disk drive.
Figure 3. SATA data/power connector clearance
If you plan to install your current 3.5-inch, 1.5 Gb/s SATA drives into the
SuperSwap enclosure, check the clearance above the SATA data/power
connector. See Figure 3.
• If the clearance is at least 1.3 mm, the drive will fit properly into the
SuperSwap enclosure.
• If the clearance is less than 1.3 mm, the drive will not fit properly. Do not
install this disk drive into your SuperSwap.
All 3.0 Gb/s SATA drives fit properly into the SuperSwap enclosure.
1.3 mm