How does the FastTrak100 RAID controller provide storage and/or data protection with their arrays?
FastTrak100 as supplied by Dell implements two different types of RAID levels as follows: RAID 0 (stripe) For capacity — The FastTrak100 array will be as big as the smallest HDD in the array times however many HDDs are in the array. Any larger HDDs will simply be truncated. The truncated space on the bigger HDDs will then be unusable. For sustained data transfers — Using FastTrak100, a RAID 0 array consisting of two HDDs will transfer at about twice the speed of the slowest HDD in the array. RAID 1 (mirror) For capacity — The FastTrak100 array will be as big as the smallest HDD in the array. The larger HDD will simply be truncated. The truncated space on the bigger HDD will then be unusable. For sustained data transfers — The FastTrak100 array will write data at the rate of the slowest HDD in the array. The FastTrak100 array will read data at twice the rate of the slowest HDD in the array.
