3Operating systems and devices supported
Operating systems supported
HP RAID supports
NOTE: HP offers only limited support for Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP1, SP2,and SP3).
Devices supported
This section describes the devices supported for RAID migration, including the SATA drives, computers, and docking station. Device support is summarized in the following table and then explained in more detail below the table. External USB SATA drives connected to the computer or docking station cannot be used for migrating to RAID.
Primary and Upgrade Bay SATA HDDs in the computer
Primary and secondary bay SATA HDDs in the computer
Docking station HDD or eSATA HDD attached to computer
RAID 0 | Yes | Yes | No |
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RAID 1 | Yes | Yes | No |
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Recovery | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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RAID 5 | Yes | Yes | No |
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HP SATA drive option kits
HP offers SATA drive option kits for the computer Upgrade Bay and the docking station's SATA swappable bay to support RAID migration. For optimal RAID performance, it is recommended that both drives have the same speed. However, supported HP Business computers allow drives with different speeds to be used in a RAID volume.
Drives of different capacities are also supported for RAID migration, as long as the capacity of the secondary (recovery) drive is equal to or greater than that of the primary drive. For example, if the primary drive is 200 GB, then at least a
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