Product overview, Xor acceleration, Hot-swapping – Promise Technology FASTTRAK SX4300 User Manual
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FastTrak SX4300, SX8300 User Manual
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Product Overview
FastTrak SX4300 and SX8300 are Serial ATA RAID controllers. When used with
WebPAM software, the FastTrak RAID Controllers offer a feature-rich, secure
and versatile enterprise-wide ATA RAID solution. In addition, the FastTrak SX
Series supports RAID expansion. The resulting RAID environment allows users
and administrators to configure, manage, and monitor everything from single
logical drives on local systems to logical drive networks residing in offsite
locations.
The FastTrak SX4300 and SX8300 RAID Controller cards support 1.5 Gb/s and
3.0 Gb/s Serial ATA hard drives. At their core, all both FastTrak cards provide
advanced RAID management functions: creating logical drives, monitoring them,
keeping them online and operating at optimum efficiency. FastTrak can also
perform many other tasks, such as:
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Create logical drives at various RAID levels (0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD),
depending on the application being used. FastTrak SX8300 can be
configured for RAID 50 also
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Set up a network of FastTrak RAID servers (all running under different RAID
levels) and monitor those servers from any workstation on the network
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Create a series of FastTrak RAID networks at any number of offsite locations
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Monitor and/or repair FastTrak RAID logical drives using the Internet from an
offsite location—all without compromising the integrity of secure servers
XOR Acceleration
The FastTrak SX4300 and SX8300 Controllers have a Hardware XOR
accelerator, which offloads the parity calculation workload from the main CPU
and transfers it to the controller card, boosting the performance of the entire
system.
Hot-Swapping
Each FastTrak SX4300 can support up to four Serial ATA disk drives while each
FastTrak SX8300 can support up to eight Serial ATA disk drives. With either
Controller card you can configure the drives as RAID levels 1, 5 or 10. FastTrak
SX8300 can also be configured for RAID 50. Attached drives can be hot swapped
when used with the optional Promise SuperSwap drive enclosures.