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Configuring your onboard RAID solutions
Configuring your onboard RAID solutions
Your server comes equipped with an onboard chipset for SATA RAID and SCSI RAID
solutions, which support RAID levels 0 (striping) and 1 (mirroring). The onboard RAID
solutions can be enabled in the BIOS (SATA -
) and configured
by launching the appropriate RAID BIOS console during the boot process.
Configuring the onboard SATA RAID solution
To launch the SATA RAID BIOS console:
1
Restart your server.
2
Press
F2
when the Gateway logo screen appears during startup. The BIOS Setup utility
opens.
3
From the
Main
BIOS menu, select the
Advanced
menu.
4
Select the
IDE Configuration
sub-menu.
5
For the
Configure S-ATA as RAID
option, click
Enabled
.
6
Exit the BIOS Setup utility.
7
Restart your server.
8
During the boot process you will see the following message:
Press <Ctrl>-<E> for BIOS Console
Press and hold the
C
TRL
key, then press the
E
key. The RAID BIOS console will open.
Level
Description and use
Pros
Cons
Number of
drives
Fault
Tolerant
0
Data divided into blocks and
distributed sequentially (pure
striping). Use for non-critical data
that requires high performance
High data
throughput for
large files
No fault tolerance.
Data is lost if a drive
fails.
One or two
(on this
server)
No
1
Data duplicated on another disk
(mirroring). Use for
read-intensive, fault-tolerant
systems.
100 percent
data
redundancy,
providing fault
tolerance.
More disk space
required. Reduces
usable disk space
to the size of the
smallest drive.
Reduced
performance during
rebuilds.
Two
Yes
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