6 Configuring RAID devices
This chapter describes how to configure SAS and SATA RAID devices:
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Configuring SAS RAID devices on page 141
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Configuring SATA RAID devices on page 144
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 xw4600 Workstation.
NOTE: This section does not apply to configuring RAID in the Linux environment. For RAID in the
Linux environment, configure RAID configurations as provided by Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Up to four internal SAS hard disk drives
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SAS to SATA data and power converter
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LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) for Windows
The following RAID configurations are supported on the HP xw4600 Workstation:
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RAID 0 – Striped disk array
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Two drive minimum
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Improved I/O performance
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No fault tolerance
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RAID 1 — Mirrored disk array
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Two drives
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100% redundancy
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