Configuring Your Onboard Raid Solution - Gateway 9315 User Manual

Configuring your onboard RAID solution

Your server comes equipped with an onboard, chipset SATA RAID solution, which supports
RAID levels 0 (striping) and 1 (mirroring). The onboard RAID solution can be enabled in
the BIOS (page
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.
To launch the SATA RAID BIOS console:
1
Restart your server.
2
Press F2 when the Gateway logo screen appears during startup. The BIOS Setup utility
opens.
3
From the
Main
4
Select the
5
For the
Configure S-ATA as RAID
6
Exit the BIOS Setup utility.
7
Restart your server.
8
During the boot process you will see the following message:
Press <Ctrl>-<E> for BIOS Console
133) and configured by launching the RAID BIOS console during the boot
BIOS menu, select the
sub-menu.
IDE Configuration
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Pros Cons
High data No fault tolerance.
throughput for Data is lost if a drive
large files fails.
100 percent More disk space
data required. Reduces
redundancy, usable disk space
providing fault to the size of the
tolerance. smallest drive.
Reduced
performance during
rebuilds.
menu.
Advanced
option, select
Enabled
Number
of drives
One or
two
Two
.
Fault
Tolerant
No
Yes
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