Contents

European Union Notice ..................................................................................................

A-4

Japanese Notice ..............................................................................................................

A-5

Taiwanese Notice............................................................................................................

A-5

Battery Replacement Notice ...........................................................................................

A-6

Appendix B

 

Electrostatic Discharge

 

Appendix C

 

Controller Specifications

 

Appendix D

 

Drive Arrays and Fault Tolerance

 

What Is a Drive Array?...................................................................................................

D-1

Fault-Tolerance Methods................................................................................................

D-5

RAID 0—No Fault Tolerance ..................................................................................

D-5

RAID 1+0—Drive Mirroring...................................................................................

D-6

RAID 5—Distributed Data Guarding.......................................................................

D-7

RAID ADG—Advanced Data Guarding..................................................................

D-9

Comparison of RAID Methods ..............................................................................

D-10

Other Fault-Tolerance Options...............................................................................

D-11

Appendix E

 

Hard Drive Installation and Replacement

 

General Information About Hard Drive Failure .............................................................

E-1

Recognizing Drive Failure .......................................................................................

E-2

Compromised Fault Tolerance .................................................................................

E-4

Automatic Data Recovery ........................................................................................

E-5

General Aspects of Drive Replacement..........................................................................

E-6

Drive Failure During Rebuild ..................................................................................

E-8

Moving Drives and Arrays .............................................................................................

E-9

Upgrading Hard Drive Capacity ............................................................................

E-10

Expanding and Extending Capacity .......................................................................

E-11

HP Smart Array 641/642 Controller User Guide

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