System RAM ....................................................................................................................................................... 102
Audio .................................................................................................................................................................. 102
Network cards ................................................................................................................................................... 103
Hyper-Threading Technology ........................................................................................................................... 103
NVIDIA Graphics Workstations .......................................................................................................................... 103
AMD Graphics Workstations .............................................................................................................................. 104
Supported RAID configurations ......................................................................................................................... 106
Configuring Intel SATA RAID .............................................................................................................................. 107
Configuring system BIOS ................................................................................................................ 107
RAID 0 configuration ....................................................................................................................... 109
RAID 1 configuration ....................................................................................................................... 110
RAID 1E/10 configuration ............................................................................................................... 111
RAID 0 .............................................................................................................................................. 112
Software RAID solution ..................................................................................................................................... 113
Performance considerations .......................................................................................................... 113
Configuring software RAID .............................................................................................................. 114
HP Z840 Workstations ...................................................................................................................................... 117
Z440 Workstation .............................................................................................................................................. 120
Z640 Workstation .............................................................................................................................................. 120
Z840 Workstation .............................................................................................................................................. 121
Index ........................................................................................................................................................... 122
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