Configurations

Recommended configurations

HP recommends factory configurations of the preinstalled RAID offerings for HP Elite 8000-series Business PCs. The preinstalled RAID offering is a RAID 1 volume of two identical SATA hard drives.

HP Elite 8000-series Business PCs are based on Intel chipsets that provide a combined hardware and software RAID solution. The Intel mass storage controller allows all drives to operate in IDE or RAID SATA modes. Each mode of the controller means a different PCI controller, with different device ID, class code, and driver support.

CAUTION: The PCI Device ID of the mass storage controller changes after changing IDE mode. Changing the BIOS from IDE mode to RAID mode is the equivalent of connecting the hard drives to a new add-on RAID storage controller. The installed operating system on the hard drive is unaware of this new mass storage controller. If the operating system does not have the RAID drivers enumerated and PnP for the RAID controller, the operating system will fail to boot (blue screens) when Microsoft XP, Vista or Windows 7 attempts to boot.

Table 6: RAID drives

Mode

Purpose

Minimum drives required

 

 

 

RAID 0

Striped for

2

 

Performance.

 

 

 

 

RAID 1

Mirrored for Protection.

2

 

 

 

RAID 5

Parity for Accuracy.

3

 

 

 

RAID 0 + 1

Mirrored and Striped.

4*

 

 

 

 

4 logical drives on 2

 

Intel’s Rapid Technology

physical disks, to

2

 

emulate RAID 0 and 1

 

* Not supported on HP Elite 8000-series Business PCs.

The following notes are important for RAID configurations:

RAID 1 is the only RAID configuration that HP Elite 8000-series Business PC products offer as factory configuration option.

All pre-configured systems:

Are complete RAID systems

Have both drives installed

Have the necessary Option ROM configuration

Are pre-loaded and pre-installed with all required Intel software

Include a preinstalled operating system that is mirrored mode out of the box

HP also recommends keeping the default options in the RAID Option ROM and in the Windows RAID application. Options like “chunk” size for changing the size “stripe” size have more history in their defaults settings

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8200 tower specifications

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