The Storage Champions: ATA/100 IDE RAID Controllers From AMI, HighPoint And Promise

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Promise FastTrak100 TX2

Promise's ATA/100 IDE RAID controller is available as a two-channel and four-channel version (TX2 and TX4 respectively). Striping several drives will easily exceed the maximum IDE data rate of 100 MB/s, which would make the 33 MHz PCI bus a serious bottleneck. Thus, the Promise controllers support 66 MHz operation in order to make use of a PCI bandwidth of 266 MB/s. Please be sure that the system will only run 66 MHz if all PCI cards comply to PCI 2.2!

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.