Promise FastTrak TX4000

Promise Technology, the leader in ATA and ATA RAID controllers, maintains an ongoing commitment to providing ultimate performance in ATA RAID solutions. With the FastTrak TX4000 ATA RAID controller card, Promise offers a high-performance, low-cost ATA RAID solution designed to deliver maximum performance. The FastTrak TX4000 provides four independent ATA channels, a solution that is optimized for four-drive RAID implementations. In a four-drive system, the FastTrak TX4000 bypasses the master-slave implementation used with two-channel controller cards, resulting in improved data throughput and the flexibility of hot-swap support in a RAID 0+1 set-up when paired with Promise's SuperSwap 1000 hot-swap drive enclosure. By combining a Promise controller card with your ATA hard drives, you can gain the incredible performance and extraordinary benefits of a high-end RAID system at a fraction of the cost. By leveraging a data-striping configuration (RAID 0), your data is spread across multiple drives for faster storage performance, dramatically increasing data throughput - up to 266MB/sec - and combining the storage capacity of the disks. With a data-mirroring configuration (RAID 1), your data is duplicated on multiple drives, delivering exceptional reliability and data protection if a drive fails. Using four drives, you can also set up a combination configuration (RAID 0+1) that offers the benefits of both schemes. Regardless of which configuration you choose, Promise ATA RAID cards are engineered to deliver premier performance.