Internal Hard Disk Drives; Raid Configuration - NEC Express5800/R120d-1M Configuration Manual

CONFIGURATION GUIDE

4 Internal Hard Disk Drives

4.1

RAID Configuration

Refer to the section in accordance with your disk form factor and RAID configuration.
Up to six 2.5-inch Drives
Non-RAID
RAID 0/1/10
RAID 5/6/50/60
Up to eight 2.5-inch Drives
RAID 0/1/10
RAID 5/6/50/60
NOTE:
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Up to four hard drives can be installed in the Embedded SATA configuration.
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Hot plug insertion/removal are not supported in the Embedded SATA configuration.
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All drives within a RAID array should be of the same type, capacity and rotation speed.
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Use the same rotational speed of the SAS hard drives.
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To configure a large-capacity RAID array, it is recommended to configure in RAID 6 or RAID 60 in
order to minimize the risk of becoming multiple hard drives failure during the RAID rebuilding process.
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Up to two kinds of drives can be mixed in one system
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For mix configuration, the same kind of hard drives are mounted starting with Slot 0 sequentially, and
the remaining slots can mount different kind of hard drives.
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For SAS and SATA hard drive mix configuration, they must be installed in separate drive groups with
multiple of two drives.
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For optional RAID controller driver to install Windows Server 2003 R2, download from the NEC
website at:
http://www.nec.com/en/global/prod/express/download/index.html
NEC Corporation
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NEC Express5800R120d-1M
512MB Cache
1GB Cache /
Battery
1GB Cache /
CacheVault
512MB Cache
1GB Cache /
Battery
1GB Cache /
CacheVault
Revision 7.0 – July 17, 2013
Available Interface
Refer to 4.2.1
SATA
Refer to 4.2.2 SATA, SAS
Refer to 4.2.3
SATA, SAS
Refer to 4.2.4 SATA, SAS
Refer to 4.2.5
SATA, SAS
Available Interface
Refer to 4.2.6 SATA, SAS
Refer to 4.2.7 SATA, SAS
Refer to 4.2.8
SATA, SAS
Refer to 4.2.9
SATA, SAS
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