CONFIGURATION GUIDE – NEC Express5800/R120g-2E
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4.2 Required Components for RAID Configuration
4.2.1 Up to four Drives with Embedded SATA Controller
Product Name / Description
Embedded SATA Controller
4 x 6Gb/s SATA
Internal SATA Cable
2 sets of 1 x Mini SAS HD to 1 x Mini SAS HD cable
2.5-inch Drive Cage
8 x 2.5-inch Hot-plug hard drive bays
NOTE:
Up to 4 SATA drives are supported.
For supported HDD/SSD, refer to 4.3.1
Hot plug insertion/removal are not supported in the configuration.
4.2.2 Up to four Drives with Embedded SATA RAID 0/1 Controller
Product Name / Description
Embedded SATA Controller
4 x 6Gb/s SATA
Internal SATA Cable
2 sets of 1 x Mini SAS HD to 1 x Mini SAS HD cable
2.5-inch Drive Cage
8 x 2.5-inch Hot-plug hard drive bays
NOTE:
Up to 4 SATA drives are supported.
For supported HDD/SSD, refer to 4.3.2
4.2.3 Up to sixteen Drives with RAID 0/1 Controller with 1GB Cache
Product Name / Description
Storage Controller
Required
RAID Controller (1GB, RAID 0/1)
LSI MegaRAID SAS 9362-8i
RAID 0/1/10, 1GB, Int. 8, PCIe 3.0 x8, SAS 12Gb/s, SATA 6Gb/s
Flash Backup Unit
for LSI MegaRAID SAS 9362-8i
650mm Cable for Flash Backup Unit included
Internal SAS/SATA Cable
1 x Mini SAS HD to 1 x Mini SAS HD, 2 sets
2.5-inch Drive Cage
8 x 2.5-inch hot plug drive bays
Optional Drive Cage
(For more than 8
Drives)
2.5-inch Hot Plug Drive Cage Kit
8 x 2.5-inch hot plug drive bays
Including 4 sets of 1 x Mini SAS HD to 1 x Mini SAS HD cable, SAS
expander card
NOTE:
For Supported HDD/SSD, refer to 4.3.3 for 2008R2 or VMware. Refet to 4.3.4 for Windows Server 2012/2012R2, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
All drives within a RAID array should be of the same type, capacity and rotation speed.
Up to two kinds of drives selected from SAS 10K HDDs, SAS 15K HDDs, SATA HDDs, SAS SSDs, SATA SSDs (ME) and SATA
SSDs (VE) can be mixed in each drive cage.