Promise FastTrack TX2000 - Page 9

Conlusion

Most users who are occupied with A/V editing and in general want to boost their storage system performance must use a RAID solution. The IDE RAID controllers offer increased performance over low value using IDE drives. The Promise FastTrack TX2000 main propose is to offer a cheap RAID 0,1,0+1 option for end users. Does it succed it? The answer is only positive.

We saw major performance increasement ,especially with RAID0 level. Users can benefit from the RAID0+1 level and connecting 4 drives can have up to 640GB capacity. Other features of the card, compatibility with PCI 66Mhz, will offer further performance boost. Server admins will find the Promise's Data Management software useful to monitor the condition of the RAID arrays and notified when something happens. The card can be used at all operating systems and can be found at a price of $100-$115.