Promise Announces FastSwap & FastSwap Pro Kit for Easy Outside Access & Replacement of Drives in IDE RAID Storage Systems; Supports Promise IDE RAID Product Line & Archival Drive Storage.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1998--Promise Technology Inc. Tuesday announced the release of its FastSwap "hot swap To pull out a component from a system and plug in a new one while the main power is still on. Also called "hot plug" and "hot insertion," hot swap is a feature of USB devices, allowing an external drive, network adapter or other peripheral to be plugged in without having to power down the " box and FastSwap Pro "hot swap" kit designed to provide easy pull-out access and slide-in replacement of IDE hard drives without opening the PC case. FastSwap (MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) : $129) provides a fully-ventilated IDE drive chassis with handle that slides inside a durable plastic housing "garage." The housing comes complete with a standard IDE connector, dedicated cooling fan, and security lock for extra protection. The FastSwap Pro kit (MSRP: $349) offers a complete, "hot" swappable IDE RAID Using ATA (IDE) drives in a RAID configuration. See RAID. system that bundles two FastSwaps with the powerful Promise FastTrak IDE RAID controller card. Up to four drives can be supported by one FastTrak card. FastSwap allows easy pull-out and snap-in "hot" swapping of a failed drive under RAID 1 or RAID 0+1. This setup provides data protection by maintaining identical data on two drives or two pairs of drives every time the PC saves a file. Should one drive fail, the PC continues saving and retrieving data using the working drive or drive pair without downtime. Once a drive is replaced with FastSwap, data is rebuilt to the new drive. RAID 1 with FastSwap allows users to easily maintain a drive or set of drives for archival storage -- offering a reliable backup of drive data offsite. FastSwap, under RAID 0, lets users of graphics, video, CAD, and other high-end applications easily swap huge volumes of data, similar to using gigantic floppy disks, at speeds faster than Ultra Wide SCSI A SCSI interface that transfers 16 bits in parallel rather than 8 bits. See SCSI. (hardware, standard) Wide SCSI - A variant on the SCSI-2 interface. It uses a 16-bit bus - double the width of the original SCSI-1 - and therefore cannot be connected to a SCSI-1 bus. . For highest performance applications, RAID 0 doubles Ultra DMA Same as Ultra ATA. Ultra DMA - ATA-4 or EIDE (Enhanced IDE) An extension to the IDE interface that supports the ATA-2 and ATAPI standards. ATA-2 (Fast ATA) provides faster transfer rates (see IDE for details) and allows for multiple channels, each connecting two devices. performance by allowing multiple drives to perform the work of a single drive, while combining their drive capacities into one huge "virtual" drive -- either as a boot drive The disk drive that contains the operating system. Most personal computers are configured to look for the OS in the CD-ROM drive first and then the hard disk. In the past, the floppy drive was first on the list. See bootable disk and BIOS. or a secondary data drive. FastSwap supports the entire Promise IDE RAID product line, which includes FastTrak (a four-drive IDE RAID 0/1 card), Checkered Flag FT440BX (a Pentium II 440BX motherboard with two dedicated IDE RAID 0/1 ports), and DriveDefender (a dedicated, two-drive RAID 1 card). "It's very important for home users, small businesses, or small network users to have easy access to hard drives -- particularly if the drives are part of a performance RAID system," said Sam Sirisena, Promise vice president of sales and marketing. "Our FastSwap boxes offer yet another level of product support and ease-of-use for our IDE RAID concept, providing Ultra Wide SCSI performance at an affordable price." Promise Technology, with headquarters in San Jose, is a worldwide leader in solutions that improve system performance -- including IDE storage, subsystems, and performance peripherals. Since its founding in 1988, the company has introduced the first IDE caching controller, the first Ultra DMA controller card, and the first controller to offer IDE RAID for desktop PCs. With its unequalled track record of design innovation and product development, Promise remains at the forefront of the IDE controller and I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output solution field. For additional information, contact: Frank Widder, Promise Technology, 1460 Koll Circle, San Jose, Calif. 95112. Phone: 408/452-0948, Ext. 244. Fax: 408/452-1534. E-mail: frank@promise.com. URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : www.promise.com. CONTACT: T&O/RobertsMealer Sylvia Chansler, 949/855-7870 schansler@topr.com or Promise Technology Frank Widder, 800/888-0245, Ext. 244 frank@promise.com |
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