Promise Fasttrak query

[mmilburn]

I have two 10gig Maxtor 7200 drives attached to a promise Fasttrak controller which has been performing brilliantly. I would like to add another two drives but different ones. I was thinking about two 20gig 7200 Maxtors. My current setup is ARRAY1 = 2x10gig. Is it possible to setup another ARRAY with two drives(Same make/model etc) to work alng with my existing one. I would according to the controller have Capture Drive 1= 20gig and Capture drive 2=40gig. Would this setup work. Anyone tried this?.

Cheers

Martin.

[This_Idiot]

Hi Martin,

My understanding is that the lowest capacity drive is taken as being the common denominator. For instance, if you teamed up a 10 Gb and a 20Gb on the same FT it would give you 2*10 Gb = 20Gb NOT 30.

Of course you could always use the 2 20Gb drives to give you a 40Gb array and use the "old" 10Gb drives on your mobo IDE's to use as temporary storage for rendered projects

[benjo007]

I have a fastrack66 also. It is capable of up to 4 different arrays. So u can have the 20 and 40 as u want. The manual goes into setting them up nicely. Double check it and you will see. What are you getting when using the hd benchmark from matrox?
Good Luck
Ben

[DrMordrid]

While the Matrox benchmark is better than it used to be I'd still use the shareware version of SANDRA.

http://www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/sandra

The Drives Benchmark details sheet gives you a real nice breakdown of all the pertinent scores in addition to the usual composite result.

Dr. Mordrid