HP 8000 tower manual Migration to RAID 0 from two non-RAID hard drives

Migration to RAID 0 from two non-RAID hard drives

NOTE: HP Elite 8000-series Business PC products only support RAID based on two identical SATA hard drives in either RAID 0 or RAID 1 or Matrix RAID Mode of RAID 0 and RAID 1.

To migrate two non-RAID hard drives to a RAID 0 configuration using Intel Rapid Storage Console perform the following steps:

1.Open the Intel Rapid Storage Console and select Create and select the volume type Optimized disk performance (RAID 0).

2.Click Next to configure the volume.

3.In the Configure window, name the volume, select the two disks and specify if you want to keep data from one of the selected disks.

4.Click Next to begin the confirmation process and start the Create Volume action.

5.Click Create Volume to confirm you understand the Volume Creation warning and you want to continue the action.

6.Click OK after the action completes.

Migration to RAID 0 from three non-RAID hard drives

NOTE: Back up all data before proceeding.

HP Elite 8000-series Business PC products only support RAID based on three identical SATA hard drives in either RAID 0 or RAID 5 or Matrix RAID Mode of RAID 0 and RAID 5.

1.Open the Intel Rapid Storage Console and select Create in the top pane and select the Volume Type in the right pane. Select Optimized disk performance (RAID 0).

2.Click Next to configure the volume.

3.In the Configure window, name the volume, select the three disks and specify if you want to keep data from one of the selected disks.

4.Click Next to begin the confirmation process and start the Create Volume action.

NOTE: HP currently supports only the default Strip Size (in this case 128KB). There is a performance relation between the type of data and the strip sizes.

5.Click Create Volume to confirm you understand the Volume Creation warning and you want to continue the action.

6.Click OK after the action completes.

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