NEC Express5800 User Manual

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION GUIDE – NEC Express5800/R120h-2M
NEC Corporation Revision 5.0 – January 2018 45
Internal drive supplementary matters
Conditions of internal drives in default factory configuration
In default factory configuration, there are some conditions of drive types and RAID levels can be installed
as below.
Common
 All drives in default factory configuration should be of the same type, sector and rotation speed.
 For the shipment with RAID array, select the drives in the same capacity as many as needed.
RAID controller configuration
 RAID level 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 can be installed for default factory configuration shipment. Selectable RAID levels are depending on the
RAID controller.
 Capacity of Logical drive can be within 2TB with legacy boot mode, capacity of logical drive can be within the total capacity of
logical disks with UEFI boot mode.
 As factory shipment, Initial cache policy of RAID controllers is Write Through for N8103-189, Write back for N8103-190/191.
RAID configuration for shipment
RAID configuration for
shipment
Number of Drives
Number of Drives in RAID levels
Non RAID
1～10
Non
Embedded RAID(On-board
RAID) configuration (RAID
0/1/10)
1
RAID0 (Single drive)
2
RAID1
3
2 in RAID1、1 for hot spare
4/6/8
4/6/8 in RAID10
5/7
9 (3.5inch model only)
4/6/8 in RAID10, 1 for a hot spare
10 (3.5inch model
only)
8 in RAID10, 2 in RAID1
RAID controller
configuration(RAID 0/1/10)
1
RAID0(Single drive)
2
RAID1
3
2 in RAID1, 1 for a hot spare
4/6/8
4/6/8 in RAID10
5/7/9
4/6/8 in RAID10, 1 for a hot spare
10
8 in RAID10, 2 in RAID1
11
8 in RAID10, 2 in RAID1, 1 for a hot spare
12/14/16
8 in RAID10, 4/6/8 in RAID10
13/15/17
8 in RAID10, 4/6/8 in RAID10, 1 for a hot spare
18
2x 8 in RAID10, 2 in RAID1
19
2x 8 in RAID10, 2 in RAID1, 1 for a hot spare
20/22/24
2x 8 in RAID10, 4/6/8 in RAID10
21/23/25
2x 8 in RAID10, 4/6/8 in RAID10, 1 for a hot spare
26
3x 8 in RAID10, 2 in RAID1
RAID controller configuration
(RAID 0/1/5/6/10)
1
RAID0(Single drive)
2
RAID1
3-8
RAID5
9
8 in RAID 5, 1 in RAID0 (Single drive)
10
8 in RAID 5, 2 in RAID 1
11-16
8 in RAID 5, 3-8 in RAID5
17
2x 8 in RAID 5, 1 in RAID0 (Single drive)
18
2x 8 in RAID 5, 2 in RAID 1
19-24
2x 8 in RAID 5, 3-8 in RAID5
25
3x 8 in RAID 5, 1 in RAID0 (Single drive)
26
3x 8 in RAID 5, 2 in RAID 1
27-30
3x 8 in RAID 5, 3-8 in RAID5

NEC Express5800 Specifications

General

Processor	Intel Xeon
Storage	HDD/SSD
RAID Support	Yes (varies by model)
Power Supply	Redundant PSU options (varies by model)
Form Factor	Rackmount, Tower
Network	Gigabit Ethernet
Operating System Support	Windows Server, Linux