Hard Drive Configurations - HP xw4100 Service And Technical Reference Manual

hard drive configurations

The following table presents common physical hard drive configurations for the HP workstation
xw4100. Many other possible different configurations are not listed in the table, but for optimal
performance and disk space usage, the following configurations are recommended.
First Hard Drive Bay
IDE/SATA/SCSI (plug in
Controller)
IDE/SATA/SCSI (plug in
Controller)
IDE/SATA/SCSI (plug in
Controller)
IDE/SATA/SCSI (plug in
Controller)
IDE/SATA/SCSI (plug in
Controller)
IDE/SATA/SCSI (plug in
Controller)
IDE/SATA/SCSI (plug in
Controller)**
IDE/SATA/SCSI (plug in
Controller)**
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
*Part of logical hard drive in a RAID array.
** This could be part of logical hard drives in a RAID array or stand alone physical drive.
The first hard drive bay is the recommended position for the drive containing the bootable
NOTE:
OS.
For systems with bootable RAID array, the bootable logical drive can exist on multiple physical
hard drives. SATA plug-in Controller is only recommended for RAID purposes.
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Second Hard Drive Bay
empty
IDE
IDE
SATA
SATA
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SATA Devices
Third Hard Drive at
Optical Bay
empty
empty
IDE
empty
SATA
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
empty
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
IDE
SATA
empty
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
IDE
SCSI (plug-in Controller)
C–3