
hp workstation xw4100 service and technical reference guide
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SATA Devices
hard drive configurations
The following table presents common physical hard drive configurations for the HP workstation
xw4100. Many other possible different configurations are not listed in the table, but for optimal
performance and disk space usage, the following configurations are recommended.
*Part of logical hard drive in a RAID array.
** This could be part of logical hard drives in a RAID array or stand alone physical drive.
NOTE:
The first hard drive bay is the recommended position for the drive containing the bootable
OS.
For systems with bootable RAID array, the bootable logical drive can exist on multiple physical
hard drives. SATA plug-in Controller is only recommended for RAID purposes.
First Hard Drive Bay
Second Hard Drive Bay
Third Hard Drive at
Optical Bay
IDE/SATA/SCSI (plug in
Controller)
empty
empty
IDE/SATA/SCSI (plug in
Controller)
IDE
empty
IDE/SATA/SCSI (plug in
Controller)
IDE
IDE
IDE/SATA/SCSI (plug in
Controller)
SATA
empty
IDE/SATA/SCSI (plug in
Controller)
SATA SATA
IDE/SATA/SCSI (plug in
Controller)
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
IDE/SATA/SCSI (plug in
Controller)**
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
empty
IDE/SATA/SCSI (plug in
Controller)**
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
IDE
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
SCSI (plug-in Controller)**
SATA
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
empty
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
IDE
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SATA (plug-in Controller)*
SCSI (plug-in Controller)
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