Lenovo 4157 Laptop User Manual


 
Chapter 6. Installing hard disk drives and conguring RAID
This chapter contains information about installing hard disk drives and conguring Redundant Array of
Independent Disks (RAID) for this product.
Notes:
The information about conguring RAID in this chapter is applicable only for a Windows environment. For
information about conguring RAID in a Linux environment, contact your Linux software provider.
You can install a combination of SATA and SAS hard disk drives within the same computer. However,
SATA and SAS hard disk drives cannot be installed within the same RAID array. All drives should be
connected to the SAS controller card.
Installing SATA hard disk drives and conguring RAID
This section contains information about the required number of SATA hard disk drives for the supported level
of RAID and SATA RAID conguration.
Installing SATA hard disk drives
Your computer must have the minimum number of SATA hard disk drives installed for the supported level of
RAID below:
RAID Level 0 Striped disk array
Two hard disk drives minimum
Better performance without fault tolerance
RAID Level 1 Mirrored disk array
Two hard disk drives minimum
Improved read performance and 100% redundancy
RAID Level 5 Block-level striped disk array with distributed parity
Three hard disk drives minimum
Data striped at the byte level
Stripe error correction information
Better performance and fault tolerance
To install a new SATA hard disk drive, refer to the installation procedure in “Replacing a hard disk drive” in
the ThinkStation Hardware Installation and Replacement Guide.
Conguring the system BIOS to enable SATA RAID functionality
This section describes how to congure the system BIOS to enable SATA RAID functionality.
Note: Use the arrow keys on the keyboard to make selections.
1. Press F1 to enter the system BIOS setup. See “Starting the Setup Utility program” on page 17.
2. Select Devices IDE Drives Setup and press Enter.
3. Select SATA RAID Enable and press Enter.
4. Select Enabled and press Enter.
5. Press F10 to save the new settings and exit.
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