Promise heeft een aantal nieuwe ATA100 controllers in de Ultra100 en FastTrak100 serie aangekondigd. Opvallend kenmerk van de nieuwe controllers is ondersteuning voor de snelle 66MHz PCI bus, die op veel server mobo's wordt gebruikt. Dankzij 66MHz PCI support zijn de nieuwe Ultra100 en FastTrak100 controllers in staat om de volledige theoretische bandbreedte van twee ATA100 channels te leveren.
De eerste nieuwe controller is de RAID-loze Ultra100 TX2. Promise noemt als bijzonder features de support voor high-speed CRC error-checking en de meegeleverde software drivers die de harddisk performance onder Winbench '99 op wonderbaarlijke wijze met maximaal 40% laten toenemen. De Ultra100 TX2 werkt onder Netware 3.12/4.1/5 en alle moderne Windows versies:
Promise Technology, Inc. announced today it will begin distribution of the first 66MHz PCI Bus controller card designed to support Ultra ATA/100 drives. The Ultra100 TX2 provides complete Ultra ATA/100 support for 66MHz PCI-based motherboards that allow up to 200MB/sec PCI bus data transfers. Ultra100 TX2 will have a suggested list price of $49.
The new card supports all features of Ultra ATA/100 drives, including 100MB/sec burst data transfers and CRC high-speed error-checking. Ultra100 TX2 can be used on 33MHz PCI motherboards and is backward-compatible with older Ultra ATA and IDE drives.
Promise Ultra100 TX2 also improves drive performance under Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000. Ultra100 TX2's software drivers automatically boost performance for all drives (ATA and SCSI) installed in a PC by up to 40 percent.[1]
Ultra100 TX2 bundles a free Ultra ATA 80-wire/40-pin cable that offers improved data reliability and signal integrity by adding 40 extra ground wires than standard 40-wire/40-pin IDE cables. Without the required cable, Ultra ATA/100 drives will only run at 33MB/sec.
Up to four drives and/or ATAPI devices are supported by the two IDE ports on the Ultra100 card. Each port offers separate device timing to run each attached device at its highest-rated speed. Ultra100 TX2 also provides bus mastering for improved performance.
[...] The new card works with major operating systems including Windows 2000/NT4/ME/98/95, and Netware 3.12/4.1x/5.
De LP versie van de FastTrak100 werd specifiek ontwikkeld voor gebruik in 2U rackmounts. Alle FastTrak kaarten ondersteunen hot spare, hot swap en worden geleverd met driver support voor Windows, Netware en Red Hat Linux: [/break] Promise Technology, Inc. today announced the latest addition to its industry-leading line of ATA RAID products – the FastTrak100 TX & LP Series of ATA RAID PCI cards. Compatible with the latest 66MHz PCI bus motherboards, the FastTrak100 TX & LP series offers data transfer rates in RAID 0 (striping) of up to 200 megabytes (MB) per second (depending on the number and type of drives used in the system) – double the rate of the fastest system using an ATA 100 drive, the fastest ATA drives currently available.
The FastTrak100 TX & LP Series features three product families, each providing users with specific and unique performance, feature and value options. The FastTrak100 TX4 (available Q2, 2001) offers the highest performance and capacity. With four separate ATA/100 drive connections, the FastTrak100 TX4 allows each attached drive to use an independent data channel, assuring maximum performance for each drive. The FastTrak100 TX4 enable users to configure RAID arrays in RAID 0 (striping), RAID 1 (mirroring) or RAID 0+1 (striping and mirroring).
The FastTrak100 TX2 offers the same features, but with two, rather than four, data channels. The cards still allow four drives to be configured, but each channel will carry two drives. This offers users similar performance and capacity benefits to the TX4, but at a lower cost to provide a solution for nearly every budget.
Finally, the FastTrak100 LP allows users of low-profile PCs or 2U rackmount chassis to benefit from either RAID 0 or RAID 1 configurations. The FastTrak100 LP is designed to fit in smaller PCs and other systems while still offering outstanding performance and data redundancy not easily available to these users in the past.
All cards support hot spare and hot swap for 24/7 operations. Operating system supports includes Windows 2000/NT4/ME/98/95, RedHat Linux 6.2/7.0, Netware 3.12/4.1x/5.0
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