HP Xw6600 HP xw6600 Workstation Service and Technical Reference Guide - Page 145
Configuring RAID devices, Supported configurations
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6 Configuring RAID devices This chapter describes how to configure SAS and SATA RAID devices: ● Configuring SAS RAID devices on page 135 ● Configuring SATA RAID devices on page 137 For additional information about configuring RAIDs, see http://www.hp.com/support/RAID_FAQs. For information about preparing your workstation for RAID configuration, see http://www.hp.com/support/ workstation_manuals. Configuring SAS RAID devices Supported configurations The following RAID configurations are supported on the HP xw6600 Workstation. NOTE: This section does not apply to configuring SAS RAID in the Linux environment. For Linux SAS RAID, including supported configurations, refer to Installing and Configuring SAS Hardware RAID on HP Linux Workstations at http://www.hp.com/support/xw6600_manuals. ● Up to four internal SAS hard disk drives ● SAS to SATA data and power converter ● LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) for Windows The following RAID configurations are supported on the HP xw6600 Workstation: ● RAID 0 - Striped disk array ◦ Two drive minimum ◦ Improved I/O performance ◦ No fault tolerance ● RAID 1 - Mirrored disk array ◦ Two drives ◦ 100% redundancy ◦ Can recover from single drive failure ◦ Improved read performance ● RAID 1E ◦ Three drives minimum ◦ Can be an odd number of drives ◦ Can always recover from a single drive failure and, in some cases, can recover from two drive failures ENWW Configuring SAS RAID devices 135