Lenovo W700 Installing and configuring RAID

Installing and configuring RAID

This chapter presents following information about attaching SATAdevices and

configuring RAID for this product.

v“Supported RAID configurations”

v“Configuring the system BIOS to enable embedded SATARAID functionality”

v“Creating RAID volumes” on page 48

v“Deleting RAID volumes” on page 48

The following RAID configurations are supported on ThinkPad W700 and W700ds:

RAID Level 0 (RAID 0) – Striped disk array

Better performance and no fault tolerance.

RAID Level 1 (RAID 1) – Mirrored disk array

Improved read performance and 100% redundancy.

Toconfigure the BIOS for RAID, do as follows:

1. Press F1 to enter the BIOS Setup Utility menu.

2. Select Config.

3. Select Serial ATA(SATA).

4. Select SATAController Mode Option

5. Select RAID

6. Press F10 to save the settings.

Important notices for setting RAID:

Before you install and configure RAID, make sure of the current RAID setting on

the computer you are servicing.

ThinkPad W700 and W700ds supports either RAID Level 0 (RAID 0) or RAID

Level 1 (RAID 1). Confirm the RAID setting information provided from the

customer at first, then proceed with the installation.

In this product, if the BIOS was formatted or the system board was replaced,

RAID is not enabled by default.

Good or non failing drives have to be in HDD bay 0 if you have RAID 1.