Promise FastTrak® TX4310 (FASTTRAK TX4310) Serial ATA Controller

The Promise FastTrak TX4310 4-port SATA RAID PCI adapter offers a low-cost solution for implementing a RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and now RAID 5 storage system with up to four high-performance Serial ATA disk drives. Promise Technology is the leading provider of Serial ATA interface solutions, and with the FastTrak TX4310, users can benefit from Promise's experience in maximizing Serial ATA storage system performance. The FastTrak TX4310 leverages Promise's proven RAID 0/1/5/10 software engine for fast, efficient, and reliable RAID. Use RAID 0 for massive capacity and maximum performance, RAID 1 for data protection, RAID 5 for striped data with rotational parity and four-drive RAID 10 for data protection and performance enhancement. Promise's RAID engine also offers performance enhancing technology like elevator seek and load balancing for efficient performance. For maximum uptime, the FastTrak supports features like transparent data recovery and drive rebuilds performed in the background. 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. The low-profile form factor FastTrak TX4310 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 TX4310 also includes large LBA support for drives above 137GB, and its onboard BIOS automatically identifies and configures drive type.