
FastTrak
®
SX4300/ SX8300
Serial ATA 3Gb/s PCI-X RAID Controller
The Price/Performance Leader
The FastTrak SX4300/8300 SATA 3Gb/s PCI-X RAID 5 controller delivers
industry-leading RAID 5 performance at an unprecedented price/performance
ratio. For companies running popular applications like web services, file/email
servers, audio/video streaming and nearline storage, the FastTrak SX4300/8300
opens the world of professional RAID 5 performance and data protection and
combines it with cost-effective Serial ATA (SATA) 3Gb/s drives for the ultimate
internal storage solution. Based on Promise’s OEM-proven RAID 5 technology, the
FastTrak SX4300/8300 competes with SCSI RAID 5 controllers—at one-half to
one-third of the price.
SATA 3Gb/s Support
The FastTrak SX4300/8300 controller supports Serial ATA 3Gb/s drives and
conforms to Serial ATA II, Extensions to SATA 1.0 specification with Native
Command Queuing and Disk Activity LED headers support. Command Queuing
increases I/O performance by intelligently reordering data requests so that the
data can be accessed more quickly.
Hardware-Assisted RAID 5 Architecture
RAID 5 implementation involves striping data and parity information (XOR) across
the storage array. Since those parity calculations are so processor-intensive, RAID
5 controllers traditionally require a dedicated CPU to perform the XOR
calculations and manage the array. Instead of adding a costly dedicated I/O
processor to the controller, Promise’s FastTrak SX4300/8300 controller uses an
integrated XOR engine for parity calculations, delivering extraordinary
performance at a dramatically lower price. This approach takes advantage of
today’s ultra-powerful PC CPUs to manage the array and outperform traditional
RAID 5 solutions.
Improved RAS Functions
Based on an architecture similar to the widely successful FastTrak S150 SX4-M,
the FastTrak SX4300/8300 adds enhanced features for improved RAS (Reliability,
Availability and Serviceability). In addition to an improved RAID algorithm, among
the enhanced features are multiple logical drive support, media patrol
TM
and read
check table. Equipped with the new web-based Promise Array Manager
(WebPAM
TM
) software, FastTrak SX4300/8300 is extremely easy to manage for
FastTrak
®
SX4300/SX8300 PCI-X RAID Controller
4-port and 8-port SATA RAID
controllers with 3.0 Gb/s per port
64-Bit/133MHz PCI-X Host Bus Interface
Low Profile form factor
Support for RAID level 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD
Improved RAS (Reliability, Availability, and
Serviceability) functions
Online capacity expansion and RAID level
migration to add capacity as needed
Hardware-Assisted RAID 5 Architecture
Multiple logical drive support
Automatic/manual rebuild of hot spare drive
PerfectRAID™ technology for robust error
handling and recovery
FastTrak
®
SX4300
:: 4 Serial ATA 3Gb/s ports
FastTrak
®
SX8300
:: 8 Serial ATA 3Gb/s ports
Cost-Effective, High-Performance Serial ATA
3Gb/s RAID Solution from the Worldwide
Leader in SATA RAID Technology
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