Configuring your onboard RAID solution

Your server comes equipped with an onboard, chipset SATA RAID solution, which supports RAID levels 0 (striping) and 1 (mirroring). The onboard RAID solution can be enabled in the BIOS (page 133) and configured by launching the RAID BIOS console during the boot process.

Configuring the onboard SATA RAID solution

Level

Description and use

Pros

Cons

Number

Fault

 

 

 

 

of drives

Tolerant

 

 

 

 

 

 

0

Data divided into blocks and

High data

No fault tolerance.

One or

No

 

distributed sequentially (pure

throughput for

Data is lost if a drive

two

 

 

striping). Use for non-critical data

large files

fails.

 

 

 

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.

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 IDE Configuration sub-menu.

5 For the Configure S-ATA as RAID option, select Enabled.

6 Exit the BIOS Setup utility.7 Restart your server.8 During the boot process you will see the following message:

Press <Ctrl>-<E> for BIOS Console

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