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Chapter 4: Installing Components
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Slide the new drive into the drive bay as far as it will go, then slide the green drive
retainer lever toward the back of the drive bay to lock the drive into the bay.
Tips & Tricks
8
Connect the power and data cables.
9
Follow the instructions in
10
Format and partition the drive as necessary.
Configuring your onboard RAID solution
Your server comes equipped with an onboard chipset for a SATA RAID solution, which
supports RAID levels 0 (striping), 1 (mirroring), 5 (distributed data and parity), and 10
(RAID 0 + 1). You enable the onboard RAID solution in the BIOS (See SATA -
configured by launching the appropriate RAID BIOS console during the boot process.
Configuring the onboard SATA RAID solution
Level
Description and use
0
Data divided into blocks and
distributed sequentially (pure
striping). Use for non-critical data
that requires high performance.
1
Data duplicated on another disk
(mirroring). Use for
read-intensive, fault-tolerant
systems.
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If the green drive retainer lever will not slide back all the way to lock
the drive into place, move the drive slightly, until the lever can be
moved back enough to lock the drive into place.
"Closing the server case" on page
Pros
High data
throughput for
large files.
100 percent
data
redundancy,
providing fault
tolerance.
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Cons
Number of
drives
No fault tolerance.
One or two
Data is lost if a drive
(on this
fails.
server)
More disk space
Two
required. Reduces
usable disk space
to the size of the
smallest drive.
Reduced
performance during
rebuilds.
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Fault
Tolerant
No
Yes
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