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RAID Features 2.5.3 Simultaneous RAID Arrays Intel® RSTe will provide support for RAID volume management on disks attached to the SCU controller separate from disks attached to the AHCI controller. However, Intel® RSTe will provide support for simultaneous RAID management on both. 2.5.4 Disk Coercion Intel® RSTe will provide support for Disk Coercion. When a RAID volume is created, this feature will analyze the physical disks and will automatically adjust (round down) the capacity of the disk(s) to 97% of the smallest physical disk. This allows for the variances in the physical disk capacities from different vendors. 2.5.5 Hot Spare Disk Intel® RSTe will support the ability to set a drive as a hot spare that would automatically be used to rebuild a failed or degraded RAID volume without any user interaction. This applies to both the AHCI and SCU controllers. 2.5.6 Auto Rebuild on Hot Insert Intel® RSTe will support the ability to initiate an automatic RAID rebuild when a physical disk of the appropriate size is hot inserted into the same directly attached port that the failed drive was removed from. When configured appropriately, if a RAID volume issue occurs (failure, degradation, or SMART event) and the questionable drive is hot removed, if a drive of the appropriate size (new or and from an off-line RAID volume) is hot inserted into that same port, the volume will be rebuilt on the inserted drive. 2.5.7 Manually Invoked Rebuild Intel® RSTe will provide a manual method to initiate a RAID volume rebuild if a hot spare has not been configured or is not available. 2.5.8 RAID SMART Support Intel® RSTe will provide support for SMART Alerts for SAS and SATA disks. A SMART drive event response alert on failure will initiate rebuild to hot spare disk. 2.5.9 RAID-Ready Mode A RAID-Ready system refers to a system that has been configured to support Intel® RSTe. The system BIOS has the appropriate pre-boot drivers and has been configured for RAID mode. RAID mode can be either:  The system is configured to boot off the AHCI controller and it is in RAID mode  The system is configured to boot off the SCU controller Intel® RSTe will support an Intel® C600 series chipset based platform configured in RAID-Ready mode. 2.5.10 RAID Volume Creation with Data Preservation Intel® RSTe will support the ability to preserve the data from one of the disks used for the volume creation. A non-RAID disk can be migrated to a RAID volume while retaining the existing data on that disk. Note: When creating a system boot volume, the maximum stripe size supported is 128K. Intel® RSTe User's Guide 7

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RAID Features
Intel
®
RSTe User
’
s Guide
7
2.5.3 Simultaneous RAID Arrays
Intel
®
RSTe will provide support for RAID volume management on disks attached to the SCU controller
separate from disks attached to the AHCI controller. However, Intel
®
RSTe will provide support for
simultaneous RAID management on both.
2.5.4 Disk Coercion
Intel
®
RSTe will provide support for Disk Coercion. When a RAID volume is created, this feature will
analyze the physical disks and will automatically adjust (round down) the capacity of the disk(s) to 97% of
the smallest physical disk. This allows for the variances in the physical disk capacities from different
vendors.
2.5.5 Hot Spare Disk
Intel
®
RSTe will support the ability to set a drive as a hot spare that would automatically be used to rebuild
a failed or degraded RAID volume without any user interaction. This applies to both the AHCI and SCU
controllers.
2.5.6 Auto Rebuild on Hot Insert
Intel
®
RSTe will support the ability to initiate an automatic RAID rebuild when a physical disk of the
appropriate size is hot inserted into the same directly attached port that the failed drive was removed from.
When configured appropriately, if a RAID volume issue occurs (failure, degradation, or SMART event)
and the questionable drive is hot removed, if a drive of the appropriate size (new or and from an off-line
RAID volume) is hot inserted into that same port, the volume will be rebuilt on the inserted drive.
2.5.7 Manually Invoked Rebuild
Intel
®
RSTe will provide a manual method to initiate a RAID volume rebuild if a hot spare has not been
configured or is not available.
2.5.8 RAID SMART Support
Intel
®
RSTe will provide support for SMART Alerts for SAS and SATA disks. A SMART drive event
response alert on failure will initiate rebuild to hot spare disk.
2.5.9 RAID-Ready Mode
A RAID-Ready system refers to a system that has been configured to support Intel
®
RSTe. The system
BIOS has the appropriate pre-boot drivers and has been configured for RAID mode. RAID mode can be
either:
The system is configured to boot off the AHCI controller and it is in RAID mode
The system is configured to boot off the SCU controller
Intel
®
RSTe will support an Intel
®
C600 series chipset based platform configured in RAID-Ready mode.
2.5.10
RAID Volume Creation with Data Preservation
Intel
®
RSTe will support the ability to preserve the data from one of the disks used for the volume creation.
A non-RAID disk can be migrated to a RAID volume while retaining the existing data on that disk.
Note
: When creating a system boot volume, the maximum stripe size supported is 128K.