FASTTRAK SX4100 by Promise Technology

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Manufacturer Promise Technology
Manufacturer's Part Number FASTTRAK SX4100
Description Promise; Product Line: FastTrak; Product Type: SATA Controller; Host Interface: PCI; Form Factor: Plug-in Card; Card Height: Low-profile;
NAME DESCRIPTION
Data Transfer Rate: 150 MB/s
Number of Physical Drive Supported: 4
Standard Memory: 64 MB
Product Name: FastTrak SX4100 Serial ATA RAID Controller
Platform Supported: PC
Limited Warranty: 3 Year
Brand Name: Promise
RAID Supported: Yes
Form Factor: Plug-in Card
Package Contents:
  • FastTrak SX4100 Serial ATA RAID Controller
  • 4 x 26" (650mm) Serial ATA Cables
Additional Information:
  • Promise RAID Processor with integrated XOR engine for RAID parity calculations and memory controller for local cache memory

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
  • PerfectRAID 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

FastBuild BIOS:

  • Array configuration utility at the BIOS level
  • BIOS Boot Specification support: boot system from any array
  • Flash-upgradeable BIOS for future upgrades
Marketing Information:

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.

Product Type: SATA Controller
Host Interface: PCI
Card Height: Low-profile
Maximum Data Transfer Rate: 150
Bootable: Yes
Total Number of SATA Ports: 4
Height: 2.22 "
Compatibility:

Supported Operating Systems:

  • Microsoft Windows 2000
  • Microsoft Windows XP
  • Microsoft Windows 2003
  • Red Hat Linux
  • SuSE Linux
  • Linux partial open source driver
RAID Levels: 0, 1, 5, 10, JBOD
Width: 6.625 "
Product Line: FastTrak