Sophisticated storage on a working class budget: because Promise Technology makes advanced storage affordable.The Promise Advantage [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] *** Promise is the worldwide leader in SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. RAID. Our customers count on Promise RAID solutions to protect their data and improve their storage system performance. *** Freedom of Choice -- Promise solutions use off-the-shelf SATA and PATA (Parallel ATA) Refers to the original ATA (IDE) technology that uses a parallel data channel from the controller to the disk drives. After Serial ATA drives became popular, the PATA term was coined to specifically refer to the parallel drives. See IDE and SATA. drives, enabling you to configure your storage system to your needs *** Promise brings the cost of advanced storage system features down to an affordable price, so that you can get the features you need, not just the features that you can afford. External SATA 3Gb/s Storage Systems VTrak M-Class SATA 3 Gb/s RAID Storage System **** 8/12/15 hot-swap drive bays **** Up to 400 MB/s throughput **** SATA 3Gb/s drives **** 2 iSCSI or FC host channels [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Promise Internal Storage FastTrak SX4300 SATA 3Gb/s and the SuperSwap 4100 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Four-port SATA 3Gb/s RAID controller A disk controller card that supports one or more RAID configurations. Originally only for SCSI drives, RAID controllers have become very popular for PATA and SATA drives. See RAID. with PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. host, low profile form factor SATA hot-swap drive enclosure See HDD cradle. Offers 4 bays in a 3 bay space Intelligent, High Performance RAID Controller SuperTrak EX8350 SATA 3Gb/s, PCI Express A high-speed peripheral interconnect from Intel introduced in 2002. Note that although sometimes abbreviated "PCX," PCI Express is not the same as "PCI-X" (see PCI-SIG and PCI-X for comparison). As a result of the confusion, "PCI-E" or "PCIe" is the accepted abbreviation. Card Eight-port RAID controller for servers and NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular with dedicated IO processor, full open source Linux driver, RAID 6 capable* [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ** Read the Intel RAID 6 case study with Promise online at www.intel.com and www.promise.com Contact your Promise distributor today Call 800-888-0245 *Via download late 2005 Promise Technology, VTrak, FastTrak and SuperTrak are trademarks or registered trademarks of Promise Technology Inc. Other trademarks property of their respective owners. Specifications subject to change without notice. (C) 2005 Promise Technology, Inc. Promise Technology, Inc., the originator and worldwide leader of ATA RAID, with over 12 milliion controllers shipped.. Today the world's biggest OEMs and resellers look to Promise for ongoing innovations in SATA RAID design as the company continues to lead with the most powerful and economical alternatives to traditional RAID controllers and systems. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion