Section 3 - Thinkstation P7 Support - Lenovo ThinkStation PX Manual

Section 3 – ThinkStation P7 Support
In the P7 system, RAID compatible drives are installed in the Internal Storage Bay and
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the optional 3 HDD bay located above the CPU heatsink. When utilizing the Broadcom
9560-16i RAID adapter, users can install up to two (2) drives in the internal storage bays
as well as one (1) hard drive in the optional 3
configuration, the P7 system offers support for a maximum of three (3) SATA HDDs and
two (2) NVMe drives through the use of the Broadcom adapter.
Table 5 - General overview of Broadcom 9560-16i RAID adapter support on ThinkStation P7
Maximum Number Drives
Supported RAID Levels
Drive Speed
Notes:
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Microsoft Windows 11 no longer supports booting from magnetic rotational media
(HDDs).
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Arrays cannot span across any of the following locations:
o Front enclosure bays
o PCIe add-in cards
o Onboard NVMe M.2 drives
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The Broadcom cable connects to both the motherboard and the drive bays.
However, this connection to the motherboard is for the purpose of configuring and
managing the drives in the supported drive bays. It does not enable hardware
RAID for the onboard or PCIe based drives. The onboard and PCIe drives operate
independently and are not part of the Broadcom RAID configuration.
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Mixing drives with different capacities and types within the same virtual drive
group is not supported.
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HDD bay for SATA drive only. With this
One of following:
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Up to 2 x M.2 NVMe or
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Up to 2 x E1.S NVMe or
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Up to 2 x U.2/U.3 NVMe
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Up to 3 x 3.5 HDD
M.2/E1.S/ U.2/U.3 NVMe:
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RAID 0
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RAID 1
HDD:
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RAID 0
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RAID 1
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RAID 5
NVMe Gen 4.0 PCIe
SATA 6Gb/s SATA
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