Other supported configurations

HP Elite 8000-series Business PC products support two other RAID configurations:

•Two-drive configuration:

–Two equal size/type SATA hard drive RAID configurations in RAID 0 or RAID 1 or Matrix Mode of RAID 0 and RAID 1.

–Maximum of two SATA optical drives (on HP Elite 8000-series Business PC Convertible Minitowers).

•Three-drive configuration (only on HP Elite 8000-series Business PC Convertible Minitowers):

–Three equal size/type SATA hard drive RAID configurations in RAID 0 or RAID 5 or Matrix Mode of RAID and RAID 5.

–Maximum of one SATA optical drives.

Unsupported configurations

HP Elite 8000-series Business Desktop PC products only support configurations offering the best user experience and highest possible reliability. As a result, HP does not support the following combinations of RAID hard drives:

•Different sizes

•Different speeds (5400 rpm, 7200 rpm, etc)

•Old and new technologies (SATA 1.5 GB and SATA 3.0 GB)

•NCQ hard drives and non-NCQ drives

•Different cache size

•RAID combinations of hard drives with any operating system other than Windows XP Pro (SP2/SP3), Windows Vista SP1/SP2, and Windows 7 using Microsoft’s IDE driver stack based on ATAPI.SYS

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