SATA Devices

6.3hard drive configurations

The following table presents common physical hard drive configurations for the HP workstation xw6000.

First Hard Drive Bay

Second Hard Drive Bay

Third Hard Drive at

 

 

Optical Bay

 

 

 

IDE/SCSI

empty

empty

 

 

 

IDE/SCSI

IDE

empty

 

 

 

IDE/SCSI

SCSI

empty

 

 

 

IDE/SCSI

SCSI

SCSI

 

 

 

IDE/SCSI

SCSI (plug-in Controller)

 

 

 

 

IDE/SCSI

SCSI (plug-in Controller)**

SCSI (plug-in Controller)**

 

 

 

IDE/SCSI

SATA (plug-in Controller)*

SATA (plug-in Controller)*

 

 

 

SATA (plug-in Controller)*

SATA (plug-in Controller)*

empty

 

 

 

SATA (plug-in Controller)*

SATA (plug-in Controller)*

SATA (plug-in Controller)*

 

 

 

SCSI (plug-in Controller)**

SCSI (plug-in Controller)**

 

 

 

 

SCSI (plug-in Controller)**

SCSI (plug-in Controller)**

SCSI (plug-in Controller)**

*Part of logical hard drive in a RAID array.

**This could be part of logical hard drives in a RAID array or stand alone physical drive.

The first hard drive bay is the recommended position for the drive containing the bootable OS.

For systems with bootable RAID array, the bootable logical drive can exist on multiple physical hard drives. SATA plug-in Controller are only recommended for RAID purposes.

 

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