Promise 2-channel Ultra ATA 100 RAID 01 Card Retail Box

The FastTrak SX4100 4-port Serial ATA RAID controller delivers exceptional RAID 5 performance at an unprecedented price/performance ratio. For companies running popular applications like web services, file/email servers, video streaming, NAS storage and nearline storage, the FastTrak SX4100 opens the world of professional RAID 5 performance and data protection and combines it with cost-effective Serial ATA (SATA) drives for the ultimate internal storage solution. Based on OEM-proven RAID 5 technology, the FastTrak SX4100 competes with SCSI RAID 5 controllers at one-half to one-third of the price. RAID 5 storage protection is no longer the privilege of large budget data center operations.

MPN FASTTRAK SX4100

Vendor Promise

Key Features Number of Cable Included 4 Window Based Configuration Support Yes Boot Option No Automatic Recovery Yes BIOS Support Yes Warranty 3 year Weight N/A Spare Support Yes RAID Level Support 0/1/5/10/JBOD Package N/A Disk Failure Paging or Notification No Product Type SATA RAID Controller Cache/Memory Installed 64 Meg Supporting Devices 4 OS Support Windows 2000 or better Processor Promise Weight N/A

Detail Specifications Controller Specifications - Four SATA ports at 1.5Gb/s (150 MB/sec) - Supports up to 1.6 terabytes of storage per controller (with four 400GB drives)

- Low profile form factor ideal for 1U/2U servers - 32-Bit, 66 MHz PCI bus PCI 2.2 compliant - Promise RAID Processor with integrated XOR engine for RAID parity calculations and memory controller for local cache memory - 64MB onboard ECC cache memory - FRAM for RAID5 transaction log to avoid data corruption in the event of application hangs - Combine with the SuperSwap 4100 for an advanced internal storage system RAID Levels Supported - RAID 0, Data striped across 2-8 drives for increased performance but no data protection - RAID 1, Mirrored pairs of drives for data protection with increased read performance - RAID 5, Striped parity on 3-8 drives, ultimate data protection, capacity and performance balance - RAID 10, Data mirrored then striped across up to eight drives, for double drive failure protection - JBOD, Just a Bunch Of Drives independent connected drives with no RAID interconnection RAID Fault Tolerance and Robustness Features - Multiple logical drive support enables combining different RAID levels on one set of disks - Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration to add capacity as needed - PerfectRAIDTM technology for error handling and recovery of fatal media and disk errors - Read Check table to avoid data read errors - Support hot swap of failed drives and hot spare - Automatic/manual rebuild of hot spare drive - Background initialization for instant drive availability - Background rebuild, migration and synchronization - Variable stripe block size support to meet various application requirements - Synchronization can be scheduled periodically for RAID array data consistency Advanced Performance Features - Multiple caching policy support - Packet commands and interrupt coalescing minimize interrupts for better performance - Elevator seek streamlines commands based on where data is located on the disk Web-Based Promise Array Manager - Creates, deletes, expands, and converts disk arrays remotely - Array synchronization and rebuild scheduling - Monitors drive, array, and enclosure status and provides online event logging - E-mail notification of disk, array, controller or enclosure events (e.g. error or degrade conditions) Operating Systems - Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Linux partial open source driver Platform Support - Intel IA32, EM64T and AMD64, Single and dual CPU servers 38923