HP xw8600 manual Hard drive 5 must be the same as hard drive

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HP xw8600 Workstation

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4. Hard drive 5 must be the same as hard drive 4.

In non-mixed Microsoft Windows and Linux systems, rules 2 & 3 apply.

Configure-to-order RAID configs must all have the same size/speed hard drives.

Using external enclosures, an additional 8 channels of SAS can be supported if there are no other

*Factory Integrated RAID 0 Configuration (Striped Array) and RAID 1 Configuration (Mirrored Array) requires 2 hard drives with identical speeds, capacity and interface. Specific user-configured hardware SAS RAID configurations are supported on this Linux system. Please visit: http://www.hp.com/support/linux_hardware_matrix for details.If your first HD is a SATA drive, the 2nd must be also. Mixing of SATA and SAS is not supported under Linux.

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