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External Storage
VTrak Line
# of Drives
Drive Interface
Host Interface
RAID levels
Rack Size
Performance (MB/s)
Applications
15
SATA or PATA w/Adapter
Dual 1GB iSCSI
0,1,3,5,10,50
3U
Up to 200

Any application that requires TBs of data storage with faster access than tape libraries
- Clustering
- Archival data (medical/legal/financial records, e-mail, source code, doc control, records)
- Nearline storage (disk based backup)
- Document/Medical imaging
- Digital Video Surveillance
- Audio/Video editing, archive, distribution and scratch disk
15
SATA or PATA w/Adapter
Dual SCSI U160
0,1,3,5,10,50
3U
Up to 200
UltraTrak Family
# of Drives
Drive Interface
Host Interface
RAID levels
Rack Size
Performance (MB/s)
Applications
15
PATA
SCSI U160
0,1,3,5,10,30,50
3U
Up to 50

Low price-per-Gigabyte solutions for capacity hungry and extremely cost-sensitive applications
- Video and security
- Databases servers
- Web and e-mail servers
- CRM
- File serving
- Disk to disk backup
8
PATA
SCSI U160
0,1,3,5,10,30,50
3U
Up to 40
8
PATA
SCSI U160
0,1,3,5,10,30,50
Tower
Up to 40
4
PATA
SCSI U160
0,1,3,5,10
1U
Up to 40
4
PATA
SCSI U160
0,1,3,5,10
Tower
Up to 40

 
 
Serial ATA
Cards/Controllers
# of Drives
O/S Support
RAID Levels
Applications

4 SATA

Win 2000,XP,Server 2003;
RedHat,SuSE Linux
Linux partial open source code
0, 1, 10 and JBOD

- Enhanced SATA support including command queuing (NCQ and TCQ)
- 4 Drive SATA RAID 10
- 3 or 4 Drive SATA RAID 0

2 SATA

Win 2000,XP,Server 2003;
RedHat,SuSE Linux
Linux partial open source code
0, 1 and JBOD

- Enhanced SATA support including command queuing (NCQ and TCQ)
- 2 Drive SATA RAID 1 for Data Protection
- 2 Drive SATA RAID 0 for Improved Performance (Gaming/Video)

4 SATA

Win2000/XP/2003; Linux

0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD

- Best choice for SATA RAID HBA
- Most Flexible SATA RAID HBA solution
- Low cost 3 to 4 Drive Hardware Assisted RAID 5
- Includes 64MB ECC cache memory

4 SATA

Win2000/XP/2003; Linux

0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD

- Most Flexible SATA RAID HBA solution
- Low cost 3 to 4 Drive Hardware Assisted RAID 5
4 SATA
Win98/ME/NT4/2K/ XP; Linux
0, 1, 10

- 4 Drive SATA RAID 10
- 3 or 4 Drive SATA RAID 0

2 SATA
2 PATA

Win98/ME/NT4/2K/ XP; Linux
0, 1, 10

- 2 Drive SATA RAID 1 for Data Protection
- 2 Drive SATA RAID 0 for Improved Performance (Gaming/Video)
4 SATA
Win 2000,XP,Server 2003;
RedHat,SuSE Linux
Linux partial open source code
N/A
 - Enhanced SATA support including command queuing (NCQ and TCQ)
- Use 3 to 4 SATA drives.
2 SATA
2 PATA
Win 2000,XP,Server 2003;
RedHat,SuSE Linux
Linux partial open source code
N/A
 - Enhanced SATA support including command queuing (NCQ and TCQ)
- Upgrade existing storage system with Serial ATA drives
4 SATA
Win98/ME/NT4/2K/ XP; Linux/Netware
N/A
 - Use 3 to 4 SATA drives.
2 SATA
2 PATA
Win98/ME/NT4/2K/ XP; Linux/Netware
N/A

- Upgrade existing storage system with Serial ATA drives
Drive Enclosures
# of Drives
O/S Support
Colors
Applications

SuperSwap 4100

4 SATA
N/A
Beige

- Hot-swap of Serial ATA drives
- Improved Availability with Data Protection RAID
- Only three drive spaces needed for four drives

SuperSwap 1100

1 SATA
N/A
Beige or Charcoal

- Hot-swap of Serial ATA drives
- Improved Availability with Data Protection RAID


Parallel ATA
Cards/Controllers
# of Drives
O/S Support
RAID Levels
Applications
4 Drives
(4 Channels)
WinNT/2K/XP; Linux
0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD
- Best choice for PATA RAID HBA
- Most Flexible PATA HBA solution
- Low cost 3 to 4 Drive Hardware Assisted RAID 5
- Includes 64MB ECC cache memory
4 Drives
(4 Channels)
WinNT/2K/XP; Linux
0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD
- Most Flexible PATA HBA solution
- Low cost 3 to 4 Drive Hardware Assisted RAID 5

FastTrak SX4030
(Only available in Asia Pacific)
4 Drives
(4 Channels)
WinNT/2K/XP; Linux
0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD
- Most Flexible PATA HBA solution
- Low cost 3 to 4 Drive Hardware Assisted RAID 5
- Includes 64MB ECC cache memory
*for 33MHz PCI only
6 Drives
(6 Channels)
WinNT/2K/XP; Linux
0, 1, 3, 5, 10 and JBOD

- 3 to 6 Drive low cost internal RAID storage system for huge capacity w/ hot-swap enclosures.
- Low cost, moderate performance
*Does not support Ultra ATA 133
4 Drives
(4 Channels)
Win98/ME/NT/2K/ XP; Linux
0, 1, 10 and JBOD
- 4 Drive PATA RAID 10
- 3 or 4 Drive PATA RAID 0
4 Drives
(2 Channels)
Win95/98/ME/NT/2K/ XP; Linux/Netware
0, 1, 10 and JBOD
- 2 to 4 Drive PATA RAID 1 for Data Protection
- 2 to 4 Drive PATA RAID 0 for Improved Performance (Gaming/Video)
4 Drives
(2 Channels)
Win95/98/ME/NT/2K/ XP; Linux/Netware
0, 1, 10 and JBOD
- 2 Drive PATA RAID 1 for Data Protection w/ Hot Swap Enclosures
4 Drives
(2 Channels)
Win95/98/ME/NT/2K/ XP; Linux/Netware
0, 1, 10 and JBOD
- 2 to 4 Drive PATA RAID 1 for Data Protection
- 2 to 4 Drive PATA RAID 0 for Improved Performance (Gaming/Video)
*Does not support Ultra ATA 133
4 Drives
(2 Channels)
Win95/98/ME/NT/2K/ XP; Linux/Netware
0, 1, 10 and JBOD
- 2 Drive PATA RAID 1 for Data Protection w/ Hot Swap Enclosures
*Does not support Ultra ATA 133
4 Drives
(2 Channels)
Win95/98/ME/NT/2K/ XP; Linux/Netware
N/A
- Use 1 to 4 PATA drives.
4 Drives
(2 Channels)
Win95/98/ME/NT/2K/ XP; Linux/Netware
N/A
- Use 1 to 4 PATA drives.
*Does not support Ultra ATA 133
Drive Enclosures
  
# of Drives
O/S Support
Colors
Applications

SuperSwap 1000
1 PATA
N/A
Beige or Charcoal

- Hot-swap of Parallel ATA drives with Promise controller
- Improved Availability with Data Protection RAID