QuickSpecs

HP xw8200 Workstation

Standard Features - Custom Components

4th Hard Disk Drive

One of the following

 

Windows XP

Red Hat Linux

Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drives

 

 

4th hard drive, 80 GB SATA 3.0Gb/s 7200 rpm Hard Drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

WS3, WS4

4th hard drive, 160 GB SATA 3.0Gb/s 7200 rpm Hard Drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

WS3, WS4

4th hard drive, 250 GB SATA 3.0Gb/s 7200 rpm Hard Drive (8

32-Bit, 64-Bit

WS3, WS4

MB cache)

 

 

4th hard drive, 500 GB SATA 3.0Gb/s 7200 rpm Hard Drive (8

32-Bit, 64-Bit

WS3, WS4

MB cache)

 

 

Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s Hard Drives

 

 

4th hard drive, 74 GB SATA 1.0Gb/s 10K rpm Hard Drive (8

32-Bit

WS3, WS4

MB cache)

 

 

Ultra320 SCSI Hard Drives

 

 

4th hard drive, 73 GB Ultra320 SCSI 10K rpm Hard Drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

7.2, 7.3, WS3,

 

 

WS4

 

4th hard drive, 300 GB Ultra320 SCSI 10K rpm Hard Drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

7.2, 7.3, WS3,

 

 

 

WS4

 

4th hard drive, 73 GB Ultra320 SCSI 15K rpm Hard Drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

7.2, 7.3, WS3,

 

 

 

WS4

 

 

 

 

5th*** Hard Disk Drive

 

Windows XP

Red Hat Linux

One of the following

Ultra320 SCSI Hard Drives

 

 

 

5th hard drive, 73 GB Ultra320 SCSI 10K rpm Hard Drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

7.2, 7.3, WS3,

 

 

 

WS4

 

5th hard drive, 300 GB Ultra320 SCSI 10K rpm Hard Drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

7.2, 7.3, WS3,

 

 

 

WS4

 

5th hard drive, 73 GB Ultra320 SCSI 15K rpm Hard Drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

7.2, 7.3, WS3,

 

 

 

WS4

 

***NOTE: Fourth hard drive must be SCSI.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Factory Integrated

 

Windows XP

Red Hat Linux

RAID

RAID 0 Configuration – Striped Array

32-Bit, 64-Bit

7.2, 7.3, WS3,

 

 

 

WS4

 

RAID 0 Configuration - Data Array

32-Bit, 64-Bit

7.2, 7.3, WS3,

 

 

 

WS4

 

RAID 1 Configuration – Mirrored Array

32-Bit, 64-Bit

7.2, 7.3, WS3,

 

 

 

WS4

 

NOTE: Requires 2 identical hard drives (speeds, capacity,

 

 

 

interface)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drive controllers

 

Windows XP

Red Hat Linux

 

LSI 3041E 4-port SAS/SATA RAID Card *

32-Bit, 64-Bit

WS3, WS4

 

Cable, 5 Part SCSI (required if 1st drive is SATA and any of the

 

 

 

other drives are SCSI)

 

 

 

Ultra320 back panel connect (uses HDCI connectors)

 

 

 

NOTE: * No Support for SATA 1.5Gb/s non-NCQ hard drive RAID arrays. 48-Bit LBA is required.

 

 

 

 

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HP xw8200 manual 4th Hard Disk Drive, 5th*** Hard Disk Drive Windows XP Red Hat Linux, Raid

xw8200 specifications

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