Bags and Gloves E-9220T Configuring your onboard RAID solution, Configuring the onboard SATA RAID solution, Pros, Cons, Level, Fault, drives, Tolerant, Number of, Description and use

Chapter 4: Installing Components

7 Slide the new drive into the drive bay as far as it will go, then slide the green drive retainer lever toward the back of the drive bay to lock the drive into the bay.

If the green drive retainer lever will not slide back all the way to lock

Tips & Tricks the drive into place, move the drive slightly, until the lever can be moved back enough to lock the drive into place.

8 Connect the power and data cables.

9 Follow the instructions in “Closing the server case” on page 37. 10 Format and partition the drive as necessary.

Configuring your onboard RAID solution

Your server comes equipped with an onboard chipset for a SATA RAID solution, which supports RAID levels 0 (striping), 1 (mirroring), 5 (distributed data and parity), and 10 (RAID 0 + 1). You enable the onboard RAID solution in the BIOS (See SATA - page 98) and configured by launching the appropriate RAID BIOS console during the boot process.

Configuring the onboard SATA RAID solution

Level	Description and use	Pros	Cons	Number of	Fault
				drives	Tolerant
0	Data divided into blocks and	High data	No fault tolerance.	One or two	No
	distributed sequentially (pure	throughput for	Data is lost if a drive	(on this
	striping). Use for non-critical data	large files.	fails.	server)
	that requires high performance.
1	Data duplicated on another disk	100 percent	More disk space	Two	Yes
	(mirroring). Use for	data	required. Reduces
	read-intensive, fault-tolerant	redundancy,	usable disk space
	systems.	providing fault	to the size of the
		tolerance.	smallest drive.
			Reduced

performance during rebuilds.

42 www.gateway.com