Configuring Sas Raid Devices; Supported Configurations - HP Xw4600 - Workstation - 2 GB RAM Technical Reference Manual

Configuring SAS RAID devices

Supported configurations

The following RAID configurations are supported on this workstation:
NOTE:
RAID information, including supported configurations, refer to Installing and Configuring SAS Hardware
RAID on HP Linux Workstations at http://www.hp.com/support/xw8600_manuals.
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Up to the workstation-specific maximum number of internal SAS hard disk drives
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LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) for Windows
The following RAID configurations are supported on this workstation:
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RAID 0 – Striped disk array (IS)
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RAID 1 — Mirrored disk array (IM)
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RAID 1E (IME)
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150 Chapter 7 Configuring RAID devices
This section does not apply to configuring SAS RAID in the Linux environment. For Linux SAS
Two drive minimum
Improved I/O performance
No fault tolerance
Two drives
100% redundancy
Can recover from single drive failure
Improved read performance
Three drives minimum
Can be an odd number of drives
Can always recover from a single drive failure and, in some cases, can recover from two drive
failures
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