Promise SX4000
I’ve been a big Promise fan since the original FastTrak (later renamed FastTrak33 to fit with the product line). At the time I had a bunch of 2 GB Western Digital hard drives that I didn’t know what to do…
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Promise FastTrak
When one thinks of ATA RAID, the first name that comes to mind is Promise. The first company to mass market a controller for IDE drives continues the FastTrak line from the original to the 66 and 100 models, each…
Promise SuperTrak100
The second card in our ATA RAID project is the Promise SuperTrak100. Promise has had a long standing relationship with ATA RAID in the form of their FastTrak line, which we’ll look at next week. With the SuperTrak line Promise…
Adaptec AAA-UDMA
After spending far too many nights benchmarking, let’s take a look at the first of three ATA RAID adapters. The Adaptec AAA-UDMA was the first RAID 5 adapter designed for ATA hard drives. RAID had been the domain of SCSI…
3ware Escalade 7500-8
The world of ATA RAID is a small one. When I first became interested there were two players: Promise and Highpoint. Slowly I began to hear of 3ware, a company that produced great products, but at a high price. At…