Gateway 9315 Gateway 9315 Server User Guide - Page 66

Configuring your onboard RAID solution Your server comes equipped with an onboard, chipset SATA RAID solution, which supports RAID levels 0 (striping) and 1 (mirroring). The onboard RAID solution can be enabled in the BIOS (page 133) and configured by launching the RAID BIOS console during the boot process. Configuring the onboard SATA RAID solution Level Description and use Pros 0 Data divided into blocks and High data distributed sequentially (pure throughput for striping). Use for non-critical data large files that requires high performance 1 Data duplicated on another disk 100 percent (mirroring). Use for data read-intensive, fault-tolerant redundancy, systems. providing fault tolerance. Cons Number of drives No fault tolerance. Data is lost if a drive fails. One or two More disk space Two required. Reduces usable disk space to the size of the smallest drive. Reduced performance during rebuilds. Fault Tolerant No Yes To launch the SATA RAID BIOS console: 1 Restart your server. 2 Press F2 when the Gateway logo screen appears during startup. The BIOS Setup utility opens. 3 From the Main BIOS menu, select the Advanced menu. 4 Select the IDE Configuration sub-menu. 5 For the Configure S-ATA as RAID option, select Enabled. 6 Exit the BIOS Setup utility. 7 Restart your server. 8 During the boot process you will see the following message: Press - for BIOS Console www.gateway.com 61