Sun Microsystems X4150 manual 2shows the RAID drive options, 2RAID Drive Options

Note – Configuring the Sun Fire X4150 server RAID is optional, by default, the preinstalled Windows Server 2003 R2 image is configured in a non-RAID configuration. If anything other than a basic Mirror RAID is required, it is recommended to perform a fresh install of the Windows Server 2003 R2 OS in the desired RAID configuration.

RAID Drive Options

TABLE 5-2shows the RAID drive options:

TABLE 5-2RAID Drive Options

SAS Card	Drives Supported	RAID Configuration Supported	Drive Usage
Sun StorageTek	Seagate 73 GB SAS	Volume – 1 disk
	Fujitsu 73 GB SAS	RAID 0 – stripe – 2 disk minimum	No redundancy
	Seagate 146 GB SAS	RAID 1 – mirror – 2 disk minimum	50%
		RAID 1E – 3 drive minimum	50%
		RAID – 4 drive minimum	50%
		RAID 5 – 3 drive minimum	67–94%
		RAID 5EE – 4 drive minimum	50–88%
		RAID 50 – 6 drive minimum	67–94%
		RAID 6 – 4 drive minimum	50–88%
		RAID 60 – 8 drive minimum	50–88%
		Spanned Volume – 2 drive minimum	100%
		RAID Volume – 4 drive minimum	50-100%
LSI 3081E	Seagate 73 GB SAS	IM – Integrated Mirror array. 2 disk	Data on Primary disk
		minimum, plus up to 2 hot spare disks.	might be merged.
	Fujitsu 73 GB SAS	IME – Integrated Mirror Enhanced array. 3	All data will be deleted
		to 8 disks including up to 2 hot spares.	during creation.
	Seagate 146 GB SAS	IS – Integrated Striping array. 2 to 8 disks.	All data will be deleted
			during creation.

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