FastTrak TX Series User Manual

Chapter 1: Introduction
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WebPAM Software
The Web-based Promise Array Management (WebPAM) RAID management
software offers local management and monitoring of FastTrak disk arrays.
Browser-based GUI provides email notification of all major events or alarms,
memory cache management, logging for Windows servers, disk array
maintenance, rebuild, and access to all components in disk array (server,
controller, data channels, individual drives, and enclosure).
WebPAM also displays messages about critical events on the Host PC’s monitor
screen even if your browser is closed.
For information on using WebPAM, refer to “Chapter 5: WebPAM” on page 43.
Key Features and Benefits
The following information offers an overview of the major features of your new
Promise FastTrak TX2200 and TX2300.
Advanced Hardware Design
Features Benefits
Supports 66 MHz PCI bus
motherboards (automatically
backward compatible with 33
MHz PCI slots)
Allows maximum data transfers of up to 266MB
per second (133 MB/s in 33 MHz slot) over the
bus to dramatically reduce the time to save and
retrieve large files.
Supports:
data stripe (RAID 0) and
mirror (RAID 1)
Provides dramatic increase in drive performance
and/or fault tolerant options. Offers performance
customization and data rebuilds from the BIOS
menu.
TX 2300 supports Serial ATA
Specification II
Burst data transfer rates up to 300 MB/s from
Serial ATA drives to boost overall system
performance.
TX 2200 supports Serial ATA
Specification 1.0a
Burst data transfer rates up to 150 MB/s from
Serial ATA drives to boost overall system
performance.
Independent data channels
for Serial ATA drives
Drives can multiply their data transfer
performance when striped together and each
drive uses a separate data channel.
PCI Plug-n-Play, PCI Interrupt
sharing and coexists with
motherboard IDE and SCSI
controllers
Easy to install; supports up to 4 Serial ATA
drives on the FastTrak RAID Controller card
while still supporting 4 devices on motherboard
ATA controller.