Promise Controller Cards

There are mixed messages when I mention hard drives to my peers. Of course there are the distinct advantages such as a lot of space to store your files and reasonable prices compared to flash memory...

Always made me illusion test products that were somewhat exceptional, exceptional for several reasons. This is why that made me illusion test the Promise FastTrak 100 and ATA-100 RAID controllers do...

For some time now the EIDE device market is a bit in turmoil because of the breath of newness brought by new standard UltraATA/133 and us 3DItalia we present in this review 2 items key to this new...

Pros: Works out-of-the-box as a regular disk controller in CentOS5 (and probably other current versions of Linux). Cons: Installation documentation is lacking, you have to make a (semi-obvious) guess...

Pros: After 2 dead cards from Promise, the third one actually WORKED!!! Woohoo! Cons: Where do I begin??? This card is FAKE RAID. 1) Promise can't afford to give it a cpu of it's own, so it drags off...

Pros: Other than the con mentioned below the card works performed fine. Cons: Issues with the BIOS version and my server having POST booting issues. I had to flash the card to a lower BIOS than it...

Pros: Works well in my home file server... Cons: Floppy disk/drive needed to "make driver disk"... they couldnt just put the files on the cd as normal driver files... Other Thoughts: You...

In our today's comparative article we are going to discuss two controllers from Promise and HighPoint and investigate one of their most interesting features: performance of degraded RAID 5 and RAID 6...

Pros: Running 16 Western Digital 500GB drives in RAID 6 configuration. The case is the Chenbro 4U 16 hot-swappable bay rackmount server case. I started with some serious trouble but found out that...