Promise Technology FastTrak TX4650 User Manual

FastTrak TX4650, TX2650 User Manual
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Key Features and Benefits
The following information offers an overview of the major features of your new
Promise FastTrak TX4650 and TX2650.
Advanced Hardware Design
Features Benefits
Supports single-lane PCIe
bus motherboards
Allows maximum data transfers of up to 2.5 Gb/s
in both directions simultaneously to dramatically
reduce the time to save and retrieve large files.
TX4650 supports: RAID 0,
RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10
TX2650 supports: RAID 0 and
RAID 1
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 II
Burst data transfer rates up to 300 MB/s from
Serial ATA drives to boost overall system
performance.
Supports Serial Attached
SCSI Specification
Burst data transfer rates up to 300 MB/s from
SAS drives to boost overall system
performance.
Independent data channels
for SATA and SAS drives
Drives can multiply their data transfer
performance when striped together and each
drive uses a separate data channel.
Supports multiple LUNs, two
per physical drive
TX4650 supports up to 8 logical drives.
TX2650 supports up to 4 logical drives.
Supports online logical drive
expansion
Add physical drives to the logical drive without
affecting data availability.
Supports online logical drive
migration
Change RAID level without affecting data
availability.
Utilizes FastBuild™ automenu
from the FastTrak onboard
BIOS
Has “Auto Setup” option for quick and easy
logical drive builds.
Displays status and error
checking messages during
bootup
Notifies user of possible errors and allows for
recovery of mirrored drive logical drives directly
from FastBuild™.
Supports S.M.A.R.T.
monitoring and reporting
Polls status every 15 minutes, reports through
WebPAM.
Employs the latest Promise
PCI Express SATA/SAS ASIC
technology
Fully supports Serial ATA specifications with 150
and 300 MB/sec timing and CRC error-checking
at high speeds.

Promise Technology FastTrak TX4650 Specifications

General

Brand	Promise Technology
Model	FastTrak TX4650
Category	Computer Hardware
Language	English