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Cost-effective RAID 0/1 controller
with SATA 3Gb/s drive support for
motherboards with a PCI interface
FastTrak?
TX2300
2-Port SATA RAID Adapter
FastTrak?
TX2300 highlights
:: 2 Serial ATA 3Gb/s Ports for support
of up to 2 drives
:: RAID 0/1 and JBOD
:: PCI 32-Bit / 66 MHz
:: Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
:: SATA Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ)
:: Large LBA support for drives above
137GB
:: Disk Activity LED Headers
:: Combine with the SuperSwap 1100
for an advanced internal storage
system
Cost-effective SATA RAID 0/1 PCI Adapter
The Promise FastTrak TX2300 2-port SATA RAID PCI adapter offers a low-cost
solution for implementing a RAID 0 or RAID 1 storage system with up to two highperformance Serial ATA disk drives. Promise Technology is the leading provider of
Serial ATA interface solutions, and with the FastTrak TX2300, users can benefit from
Promise?s experience in maximizing Serial ATA storage system performance.
Promise?s Proven FastTrak RAID Engine
The FastTrak TX2300 leverages Promise?s proven RAID 0/1 software engine for fast,
efficient, and reliable RAID. Use RAID 0 for massive capacity and maximum
performance or RAID 1 for data protection. Promise?s RAID engine also offers
performance enhancing technology like elevator seek and load balancing for efficient
performance.And for maximum uptime, the FastTrak supports features like
transparent data recovery and drive rebuilds performed in the background.
SATA 3Gb/s Support
The controller supports SATA 3Gb/s drives and conforms to Serial ATA II, Extensions to
SATA 1.0a specification with Native Command Queuing and Disk Activity LED headers
support. In addition to Native Command Queuing, the controller also supports Tagged
Command Queuing with drives that can take advantage of this capability. Command
Queuing increases I/O performance by intelligently reordering data requests so that
the data can be more quickly accessed than if the commands weren?t ordered.
Advanced HBA Features
The low-profile form factor FastTrak TX2300 PCI adapter incorporates many of
Promise Technology?s advanced host bus adapter features.The 66MHz PCI bus
supports up to 266MB/sec burst data transfer rate.The FastTrak TX2300 also includes
large LBA support for drives above 137GB, and its onboard BIOS automatically
identifies and configures drive type.
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TX2300 SATA RAID AdapterDisk Array Features
Device Support 2 Serial ATA ports for up to 2 Serial ATA 3G devices
Supported RAID Levels RAID 0/1/JBOD
RAID 0 ? Data striped across 2 drives for increased performance
RAID 1 ? Mirrored pairs of drives for data protection
Data Transfer Rate Up to 266 MB per second (Performance may vary depending upon
drive make, motherboard and PCI bus speed)
RAID Features Data handling optimizations include elevator seek and load
balancing
Supports hot-swap of failed drives
Offers transparent data recovery and rebuilds drive in background
Variable stripe size
Online Capacity Expansion - add capacity on the fly
RAID Level Migration - change array levels on the fly
MetaData on Disk (MDD) for drive roaming
Easy to Use Quick initialization
Arrays are bootable with built-in BIOS
Upgrades your current disk drive to a RAID array by migrating
existing data to the array
System Management
Management Tools PAM (Promise Array Management) local and remote monitoring for
Windows ? monitors status of arrays, hard drives, and controller
via TCP/IP; warns of drive failure; allows rebuilds of mirrored
arrays; synchronizes data in fault-tolerant arrays; email
notification for array events; S.M.A.R.T.-compatible status
reporting
Notification Email, audible, and visible alarms
Operating System Support Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2000
RedHat Linux; SuSE Linux
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