HP storevirtual 3200 User Manual page 24

3. When installing a disk drive, press firmly to make sure that the drive is fully seated in the drive bay before
closing the latch handle.
4. Tiering guidelines:
a. Two tiers of storage are supported.
b. Each storage tier is configured separately.
c. The RAID level is the same for all RAID devices in the same tier.
d. Each storage tier should have the same number of drives in each RAID device.
Table 11: Minimum disk drive configuration
Disk type
LFF
SSD
10K SFF SAS
7.2K LFF MDL-SAS
Table 12: Supported drives in each tier
Tier
Tier 0
Tier 1
Tier 2
Related tasks
Installing a disk drive on page 53
24 Adding storage system capacity
RAID level
RAID 10
RAID 5
RAID 6
RAID 10
RAID 5
RAID 6
RAID 10
RAID 6
Drive type
SFF SSD 12 Gb SAS
LFF SSD 12 Gb SAS
SFF 10K 12 Gb SAS
SFF 15K 12 Gb SAS
SFF 7200 12 Gb MDL-SAS
LFF 7.2K 12 Gb MDL-SAS
Number of disk drives
4
6
12
4
6
12
4
12
Drive size
400 GB, 800 GB, 1.6 TB, 3.2 TB
400 GB, 800 GB
300 GB, 600 GB, 900 GB, 1.2 TB,
1.8 TB
300 GB, 600 GB
2 TB
2 TB, 4 TB, 6 TB, 8 TB