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Drive Controllers and the Serial ATA Interface	Page 2
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks	Page 3
Basic RAID levels	Page 4
Effects of Striping and Mirroring on Reliability	Page 5
Effects of Striping and Mirroring on Performance	Page 6
Advanced RAID levels: 0+1 and 1+0	Page 7
Table: RAID Failure Modes in Four Drive Configurations	Page 8
Advanced RAID levels: RAID-5	Page 9
RAID-5 with the Promise FastTrak S150 SX4	Page 10
Table: Comparison of Promise SATA and Ultra-ATA RAID Controllers	Page 11
Table: RAID Controller Competitors of the FastTrak SX4	Page 12
Hardware Installation	Page 13
Picture: Installation of Promise FastTrak S150 SX4	Page 14
Setting up the Controller	Page 15
Backing up and Restoring Windows XP Professional	Page 16
Problems with Windows XP Professional Restore	Page 17
Performance Tests	Page 18
Table: Sandra RAID versus Hard Drive Benchmarks	Page 19
Picture: System Configuration for Hard Drive Benchmarks	Page 20
SiSoftware Sandra Disk Benchmark Analysis	Page 21
SX4 Windows XP Driver Issues	Page 22
Conclusion	Page 23
FastTrak S150 SX4 Links	Page 24
Contact Information and Copyright Notice	Page 25
Table: SiSoftware Sandra RAID-0 Benchmarks	Page 26
XXClone: Freeware XP Drive Cloning Software	Page 27
Fasttrak SX4 Hang on Boot Problem	Page 28