Configuring Raid With Intel Rste - Lenovo ThinkStation P410 Hardware Maintenance Manual

This chapter provides information about the following topics:
• "Configuring RAID with Intel RSTe" on page 70
• "Quick RAID setup using the LSI MegaRAID BIOS configuration utility " on page 72

Configuring RAID with Intel RSTe

If your computer comes with Intel RSTe, you can follow the sections below to configure RAID with Intel RSTe.
This section provides information about the following topics:
• "Installing SATA or SAS hard disk drives" on page 70
• "Configuring SATA or SAS RAID functionality with the Intel RSTe configuration utility" on page 70
Installing SATA or SAS hard disk drives
Ensure that your computer has the minimum number of SATA or SAS hard disk drives installed for the
following supported levels of RAID:
• RAID Level 0 - Striped disk array
– A RAID Level 0 hard disk drive group consisting of at least two hard disk drives
– Supported strip size: 4 KB, 8 KB, 16 KB, 32 KB, 64 KB, or 128 KB
– Better performance without fault tolerance
• RAID Level 1 - Mirrored disk array
– A RAID Level 1 hard disk drive group consisting of two hard disk drives
– Improved reading performance and 100% redundancy
• RAID Level 10 - Striped and mirrored disk array (a combination of RAID Level 0 and RAID Level 1)
– A RAID Level 10 hard disk drive group consisting of four hard disk drives
– Supported strip size: 4 KB, 8 KB, 16 KB, 32 KB, or 64 KB
• RAID Level 5 - Block-level striped disk array with distributed parity
– A RAID Level 5 hard disk drive group consisting of at least three hard disk drives
– Supported strip size: 4 KB, 8 KB, 16 KB, 32 KB, or 64 KB
– Better performance and fault tolerance
Configuring SATA or SAS RAID functionality with the Intel RSTe configuration utility
This section describes the information about configuring SATA or SAS RAID functionality with the Intel
RSTe configuration utility.
Note: The Intel RSTe configuration utility assumes that your computer is installed with more than one hard
disk drive. Therefore, if only one hard disk drive is installed in your computer, the following information
does not apply.
This section provides information about the following topics:
• "Entering the Intel RSTe configuration utility" on page 70
• "Creating RAID volumes using the Intel RSTe configuration utility" on page 71
• "Deleting RAID volumes using the Intel RSTe configuration utility" on page 71
• "Resetting hard disk drives to non-RAID" on page 72
Entering the Intel RSTe configuration utility
This section provides instructions on how to enter the Intel RSTe configuration utility.
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