HP Dc7700 Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) on HP Compaq dc7700 and - Page 4

INF Migration NCQ Option ROM PCI PCIe PnP RAID ROM SATA Strip Stripe Information file (.inf) used by Microsoft operating systems that support the Plug & Play feature. When installing a driver, this file provides the operating system needed information about driver filenames, driver components, and supported hardware. Term used to describe the movement of data from one configuration or usage model to another. Native Command Queuing. Piece or software module inside the System BIOS which provides extended support for a particular piece of hardware. The RAID Option ROM provides boot support for RAID volumes as well as a user interface for managing and configuring the systems RAID volumes. Peripheral Components Interface. PCI express. A serial version of PCI. Plug and Play. Redundant Array of Independent Disks. Read Only Memory. Serial ATA. Set of data on a single hard drive in a RAID volume. Group of all strips going horizontally across all the hard drive members of a RAID volume. Table 2 RAID Drives Mode Purpose Minimal HDD Required RAID 0 Striped for Performance. 2 RAID 1 Mirrored for Protection. 2 RAID 5 Parity for Accuracy. 3 RAID 0 + 1 Mirrored and Striped. 4* Intel's Matrix Technology 4 logical drives on 2 physical disks, 2 to emulate RAID 0 and 1. * Not supported on HP Compaq dc7700 and dx7300 Business PCs. 4