Internal Hard Disk Drives; Raid Configuration - NEC Express5800 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.
4.1.1 3.5-inch Drive
Non-RAID
RAID 0/1/10
RAID 5/6
NOTE:
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Embedded SATA RAID controller is supported only on Windows operating systems. An optional RAID
controller is required to configure RAID array for other operating systems.
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Embedded SATA RAID Controller does not support RAID 10 configured with 2TB and 3TB HDDs.
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All hard drives within a RAID array should be of the same capacity.
4.1.2 2.5-inch Drive
Non-RAID
RAID 0/1/10
RAID 5/6
NOTE:
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Embedded SATA RAID controller is supported only on Windows operating systems. An optional RAID
controller is required to configure RAID array for other operating systems.
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Mixing SAS and SATA hard drives in the same system is not supported.
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All hard drives within a drive cage should be of the same rotational speed.
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NEC Express5800/GT110e
Embedded SATA
RAID Controller
Optional RAID
Controller
Embedded SATA
RAID Controller
Optional RAID
Controller
Revision 4.0 – April 16, 2012
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128MB Cache
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512MB Cache Refer to
512MB Cache
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1GB Cache
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128MB Cache Refer to
512MB Cache
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512MB Cache
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1GB Cache
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Available Interface
SATA
4.2.1
SATA
4.2.2
SATA
4.2.3
SATA
4.2.4
SATA
4.2.5
SATA
4.2.6
Available Interface
SATA
4.3.1
SATA
4.3.2
SAS, SATA
4.3.3
SAS, SATA
4.3.4
SAS, SATA
4.3.5
SAS, SATA
4.3.6
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