Configuring your onboard RAID solution

Level

Description and use

Pros

Cons

Number of

Fault

 

 

 

 

drives

Tolerant

 

 

 

 

 

 

5

Stripes data at a block level

Fast and

More disk space

Three

Yes

 

across several drives and

redundant

required. Reduces

 

 

 

distributes parity among the

 

usable disk space

 

 

 

drives. No single disk is devoted

 

to 75% of total

 

 

 

to parity.

 

storage in the disk

 

 

 

 

 

array.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

A combination of RAID 1 and

Fast and

An additional drive

Four

Yes

 

RAID 0. Raid 0 is used for

redundant

required.

 

 

 

performance, and RAID 1 is used

 

 

 

 

 

for fault tolerance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To launch the SATA RAID BIOS console:

1 Restart your server.

2 Press F2 when the Gateway logo screen appears during startup. The BIOS Setup utility opens.

3 From the Main BIOS menu, select the Advanced menu.

4 Select the Drive Configuration sub-menu.

5 For the Configure SATA as option, click RAID.

6 Exit the BIOS Setup utility.

7 Restart your server.

8 During the boot process you will see the following message:

Press <Ctrl>-<I> for BIOS Console

Press and hold the CTRL key, then press the I key. The RAID BIOS console will open.

Important

When you press CTRL + I to configure the SATA RAID controller,

the error message: Error (0146): Insufficient Memory to Shadow

 

 

PCI ROM may appear. This error message is produced because the

 

BIOS does not have sufficient memory to load the SATA RAID option

 

ROM into memory because other option ROMs are already loaded.

 

This is not a functional problem and can be disregarded. If you receive

 

this message, press F1 to continue.

 

 

9 Configure the RAID options, then exit the RAID BIOS console. 10 Reboot the server.

 

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