Chapter 1: Introduction
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Specifications
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Fits most 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch form factor SATA and SAS disk drives
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Occupies one 5.25-inch component bay in PC chassis
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Standard Serial ATA interface
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Built-in Array Status and Drive Activity LED indicators
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Dedicated cooling fan
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Durable metal construction
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Fully-ventilated drive carrier
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Unique handle design automatically disengages drive
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Housing Assembly dimensions (HWD):1.65 x 5.75 x 8.25 inches (42 x 146 x
209.6 mm.)
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Drive Carrier dimensions (HWD): 1.07 x 4.21 x 6.81 inches (27.2 x 107 x 173
mm)
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Operating temperatures: 32
°
to 110
°
F (0
°
C to 45
°
C)
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Operating humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing
Key Features
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Supports 1.5 Gb/s and 3.0 Gb/s SATA disk drives
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Supports standard 7,200 rpm and 10,000 rpm SATA disk drives
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Supports standard 10,000 rpm and 15,000 rpm SAS disk drives
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Combine with Promise Serial ATA RAID products to provide striping (RAID
0), mirroring (RAID 1), distributed parity (RAID 5), and mirroring/striping
(RAID 10) at the hardware level
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Supports Promise Serial ATA RAID products
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Supports hot-swapping of disk drives
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Status LED indicates high-level condition of the disk drives
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Activity LED displays during normal disk drive activity
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Allows auto-sensing of SATA/SAS drive and implementation of 150MB/sec
or 300MB/sec burst transfers
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Supports Web-Based Promise Array Management (WebPAM) software
when using a Promise RAID controller, such as FastTrak SX4300
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Supports up to eight daisy-chained SuperSwap 1600 enclosures
