Promise heeft vandaag de SuperTrak100 kaart aangekondigd, een fijn ATA-100 RAID kaartje. Deze kaart kan als eerste 6 hardeschijven gezellig in een RAID setupje draaien, RAID modes 0 tot en met 5 zijn voor dit doel beschikbaar. Verder zijn er nog leuke opties te vinden zoals optioneel 128MB cache geheugen en een i960RD RISC processor om de CPU belasting zo laag mogelijk te houden. Het moge duidelijk zijn, de doelgroep is niet de PC, maar in een server zal dit kaartje niet misstaan :
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 11 -- Promise Technology, Inc. today announced the release of the first Ultra ATA RAID 5 & 3 controller product line -- including a six-channel RAID card supporting up to six Ultra ATA/100 drives running at up to 100MB/sec and a four-channel RAID card for Ultra ATA/66 drives.
``Our ATA RAID 5 & 3 controllers offer price differences greater than 3-to-1 when compared with even inexpensive Ultra2 LVD SCSI RAID configurations,'' said Sam Sirisena, Promise vice president of sales and marketing. ``We have become the first and only manufacturer to provide a complete product line for network professionals seeking reliable, economically-sensible ATA RAID 0, 1, 0/1, 3 or 5 storage solutions with complete RAID features such as hot-swap and hot spare.''
``As the pioneer of the ATA RAID concept and the acknowledged industry leader of this product category, we are dedicated to assuring that consumers continue to have a complete and comprehensive selection of ATA RAID controllers and subsystems that offer SCSI RAID functions at one third of SCSI pricing.''
SuperTrak100 Highlights
- Only RAID manufacturer to offer support of Ultra ATA/100 drives with advanced selection of RAID levels for up to six drives: RAID 0 (striping), RAID 1 (mirroring), RAID 0+1 (mirroring+striping), RAID 3 (striping with dedicated parity data drive), RAID 5 (data striping with parity striping)
- Offers RAID 5 storage at less than one-third of the cost of SCSI RAID.
Supports Ultra ATA/100 specifications including advanced CRC error-checking at higher drive speeds.- Only Ultra ATA/100 controller to provide real-time fault-tolerance (RAID Level 1, 3, 5) using up to six drives to protect data whenever the user saves.
- Supports use of "hot" spare drive for immediate drive rebuilding in event of drive failure (RAID 1, 0+1, 3 and 5).
- Only ATA RAID product line to support "hot swap" operation using optional SuperSwap(TM) drive enclosures.
- Co-exists with existing motherboard IDE controller allowing user to separate system drive from data drives or to populate motherboard IDE ports with more IDE devices.
- Graphical user interface (Win 95/98/NT/2000) visually alerts user in case of drive failure and identifies failed drive. Allows user to continue to save and retrieve data from remaining working drive(s).
- Designed for use with Windows NT 3.5x & 4.0, 2000.