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Configuring your onboard RAID solution
Your server comes equipped with an onboard, chipset SATA RAID solution, which supports
RAID levels 0 (striping) and 1 (mirroring). The onboard RAID solution can be enabled in
the BIOS (page 133) and configured by launching the RAID BIOS console during the boot
process.
Configuring the onboard SATA RAID solution
To launch the SATA RAID BIOS console:
1 Restart your server.
2 Press F2 when the Gateway logo screen appears during startup. The BIOS Setup utility
opens.
3 From the Main BIOS menu, select the Advanced menu.
4 Select the IDE Configuration sub-menu.
5 For the Configure S-ATA as RAID option, select Enabled.
6 Exit the BIOS Setup utility.
7 Restart your server.
8 During the boot process you will see the following message:
Press <Ctrl>-<E> for BIOS Console
Level Description and use Pros Cons Number
of drives
Fault
Tolerant
0 Data divided into blocks and
distributed sequentially (pure
striping). Use for non-critical data
that requires high performance
High data
throughput for
large files
No fault tolerance.
Data is lost if a drive
fails.
One or
two
No
1 Data duplicated on another disk
(mirroring). Use for
read-intensive, fault-tolerant
systems.
100 percent
data
redundancy,
providing fault
tolerance.
More disk space
required. Reduces
usable disk space
to the size of the
smallest drive.
Reduced
performance during
rebuilds.
Two Ye s