Hard Drive Configurations - HP xw4000 Service & Reference Manual

6.3 hard drive configurations

The following table presents common physical hard drive configurations for the HP workstation
xw6000.
First Hard Drive Bay
IDE/SCSI
IDE/SCSI
IDE/SCSI
IDE/SCSI
IDE/SCSI
IDE/SCSI
IDE/SCSI
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
SCSI (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 OS.
For systems with bootable RAID array, the bootable logical drive can exist on multiple physical
hard drives. SATA plug-in Controller are only recommended for RAID purposes.
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Second Hard Drive Bay
empty
IDE
SCSI
SCSI
SCSI (plug-in Controller)
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
SATA Devices
Third Hard Drive at
Optical Bay
empty
empty
empty
SCSI
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
empty
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
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