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Filling empty drive bays
Empty drive bays in the server must be filled by empty drive carriers or empty drive trays,
as appropriate. With the bezel removed, install the appropriate carrier, then replace the
bezel by snapping it into place on the front of the server. Empty drive carriers for unused
drive bays are included with your server.
Configuring your onboard RAID solutions
Your server comes equipped with an onboard, chipset SCSI RAID solution, which supports
RAID levels 0 (striping) and 1 (mirroring). The onboard RAID solutions can be enabled in
the BIOS
(page
during the boot process.
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.
Configuring the onboard SCSI RAID solution
To launch the SCSI 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
Onboard SCSI
6
Exit the BIOS Setup utility.
7
Restart your server.
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154) and configured by launching the appropriate RAID BIOS console
BIOS menu, select the
sub-menu.
PCI Configuration
option, click
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
.
Enabled
www.gateway.com
Number
Fault
of drives
Tolerant
One or
No
two
Two
Yes
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