SYSTEM CONFIGURATION GUIDE
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NEC Express5800/R110g-1E
NEC Corporation
Revision 7.0
– October 23, 2015
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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
Up to six 2.5-inch Drive
4.1.2
Up to eight 2.5-inch Drive
NOTE:
Embedded SATA RAID controller is supported only on limited OS. For more details, please see
OS
Support Matrix for PCI Cards and Embedded Controllers.
Hot plug insertion/removal is not supported with the Embedded SATA non-RAID controller.
Internal optical drive cannot be installed when N8154-52F 2.5-inch Hot Plug Drive Cage Kit is
installed.
To configure a large-capacity RAID array, it is recommended to configure in RAID 6 or RAID 60 in
order to minimize the risk of becoming multiple hard drives failure during the RAID rebuilding process.
All drives within a RAID array should be of the same type, capacity and rotation speed.
All SAS hard drives within a system should be of the same rotation speed.
Up to two kinds of drives selected from SAS 10K HDDs, SAS 15K HDDs, SATA HDDs and SAS SSDs
can be mixed.
Non-RAID
RAID 5/6/50
512 MB Cache
1GB Cache/
Battery
512 MB Cache
Refer to
4.2.1
Refer to
4.2.3
Refer to
4.2.5
Refer to
4.2.6
RAID 0/1/10
SATA
SAS, SATA
SAS, SATA
SAS, SATA
Available Interface
Embedded SATA
RAID Controller
Optional RAID
Controller
Refer to
4.2.2
SATA
Refer to
4.2.4
No Cache
SAS, SATA
1GB Cache/
CacheCade
Refer to
4.2.7
SAS, SATA
RAID 5/6/50/60
512 MB Cache
1GB Cache/
Battery
512 MB Cache
Refer to
4.2.8
Refer to
4.2.10
Refer to
4.2.11
RAID 0/1/10
SAS, SATA
SAS, SATA
SAS, SATA
Available Interface
Refer to
4.2.9
No Cache
SAS, SATA
1GB Cache/
CacheCade
Refer to
4.2.12
SAS, SATA
