Specifications

Drive Support

Supports Ultra ATA/133 drives; backward compatible with older Ultra ATA and EIDE drives

Controller Data Channels

Two independent channels assure maximum performance of each attached drive

Large LBA Mode

48-bit LBA supports drive sizes greater than 137GB each

Data Transfer Rate

Up to 266MB/sec (depends on drive speed and use of multiple drives and presence of 66MHz PCI bus)

RAID Levels

RAID 0 striping of up to 4 drives for performance
RAID 1 mirroring of 2 drives for fault tolerance
RAID 0+1 striping/mirroring of 4 drives
JBOD spanning of up to 4 drives for capacity

Data Protection

Mirrors data to second drive or drive pair on-the-fly; offers hot spare feature for instant rebuild of failed drive for RAID 1 array; hot swap failed drive and rebuild data in background for continuous PC operation

PCI Bus Support

Compatible with 66MHz PCI motherboards; automatically backward compatible with 33MHz; PCI 2.2 compliant

Disk Array Support

Supports up to 4 arrays with different RAID levels; different arrays are selectable and bootable

FastBuild BIOS Auto-Menu

Provides auto configuration and optimization; view/create/delete arrays; rebuilds failed disks

Promise Array Management Software

Windows-based utility monitors status of arrays, hard drives, and optional Promise SuperSwap 1000 enclosures via TCP/IP; warns of drive failure; allows rebuilds of mirrored arrays; synchronization of hard drives

Advanced Monitoring

Monitors S.M.A.R.T. status of attached hard drives; logs array errors and events to Windows NT/2000/XP Event Log; supports SNMP (Microsoft and Linux Agent X); supports Linux console output and management via Linux command line; Linux Syslog compatible; permits e-mail notification of errors and array events

Operating Systems Compatibility

Windows XP/2000/NT4/Me/9x; RedHat Linux 7.0/7.1/7.2; TurboLinux Workstation 7; SuSE Linux 7.2; Caldera OpenLinux 3.1