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Install the SCSI drive into the sixth drive bay by following the instructions in
"Installing a hard drive" on page
14
Reinstall the bezel, if required, by snapping it into place on the front of the chassis.
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.
160) and configured by launching the appropriate RAID BIOS console
BIOS menu, select the
sub-menu.
PCI Configuration
option, click
www.gateway.com
64.
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
Number
Fault
of drives
Tolerant
One or
No
two (this
server
only)
Two
Yes
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