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Volume

Volume, also named as JBOD, uses raw drives without any RAID configuration. AMD RAIDXpert2 treats one or more disks or the
unused space on a disk as a single array. It supports one to eight disks.

RAIDABLE

RAIDABLE is also known as RAID Ready. RAIDABLE disk can be transformed to RAID 0 or RAID 1. It supports only one disk.

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Page 1: ...Precision 7865 Tower RAID Guide Regulatory Model D03T Regulatory Type D03T002 July 2022 Rev A00 ...

Page 2: ...damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem WARNING A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage personal injury or death 2022 Dell Inc or its subsidiaries All rights reserved Dell Technologies Dell and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc or its subsidiaries Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners ...

Page 3: ...ume 9 RAIDABLE 9 Chapter 3 Configuring RAID with AMD RAIDXpert2 10 Creating the RAID volume 10 Downloading the RAID driver 10 Installing an operating system to the RAID array 10 Deleting the RAID volume 11 Chapter 4 Conclusion 12 Chapter 5 Getting help and contacting Dell 13 Contents Contents 3 ...

Page 4: ...he RAID configurations For more information refer to AMD documentation in particular the AMD RAIDXpert2 User Guide and AMD NVMe SATA RAID Quick Start Guide for Windows Operating Systems both available at www amd com Scope This document provides examples of RAID configurations using the Precision 7865 Tower In some of the screenshots a firmware version may be listed as examples The firmware version...

Page 5: ...key features of RAID 0 Two or more drives of the same size are required for RAID 0 A single drive RAID 0 volume is almost equivalent to using raw drives in JBOD mode In multiple drive RAID 0 volumes read and write operations are shared concurrently across multiple platters and heads Therefore it provides better performance The total volume capacity as seen by the operating system is equal to the s...

Page 6: ... 1 The following are the key features of RAID 1 100 duplication of data with instant failover Requires two drives preferably of the same capacity When two different capacity drives are used the volume size is same as the capacity of the smaller drive For example if you use one 1 TB drive and one 2 TB drive in a RAID 1 array the volume size is 1 TB The following figure shows that if one 2 TB drive ...

Page 7: ...the drives present in the volume fails The failed drive must be replaced and the volume must be rebuilt for the data to be accessible The total capacity is N 1 where N is the total capacity of the drives in the array For example if you use three 1 TB drives in a RAID 5 array the total volume size is 2 TB The following figure shows that if one 2 TB drive fails data is lost However if there are thre...

Page 8: ... number of drives required The following are the key features of RAID 10 Requires a minimum of four drives Only an even number of drives can be used and an odd number of drives are not possible The total volume capacity is half the sum of individual drives capacity For example when you use four drives of 1 TB you get a RAID 10 volume of 2 TB The following figure shows that the data is still availa...

Page 9: ...nfiguration AMD RAIDXpert2 treats one or more disks or the unused space on a disk as a single array It supports one to eight disks RAIDABLE RAIDABLE is also known as RAID Ready RAIDABLE disk can be transformed to RAID 0 or RAID 1 It supports only one disk Introduction 9 ...

Page 10: ...ay Management pane click Manage Array Properties to view the RAID volume that is created Downloading the RAID driver NOTE These steps are to be performed only if you want to change or re install the operating system 1 Visit www dell com support and search for your product 2 Click Drivers Downloads and download the AMD Chipset Device Software 3 Double click the exe file of the downloaded chipset dr...

Page 11: ...s For redundant arrays the Create process starts after the operating system and RAID drivers are installed and the computer is booted to the operating system However the arrays are immediately available for use as a boot array or data array You must confirm that the RAID Create process is completed for redundancy to be active Deleting the RAID volume 1 Press the F12 key to enter the One Time Boot ...

Page 12: ...onfiguration in Precision workstations Only the basic methods under pre boot environment are specified in this document However there are advanced methods and applications available to do these basic steps and advanced configurations options 4 12 Conclusion ...

Page 13: ...r Express Service Code at www dell com support For more information on how to find the Service Tag for your computer see Locate the Service Tag on your computer Dell knowledge base articles for a variety of computer concerns 1 Go to www dell com support 2 On the menu bar at the top of the Support page select Support Knowledge Base 3 In the Search field on the Knowledge Base page type the keyword t...

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