Instruction Manual

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Contents
1 Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
General Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
When Working Inside Your System
. . . . . . . . . . . 12
Protecting Against Electrostatic Discharge . . . . . . 12
Battery Disposal
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
PERC H700 and H800 Card Descriptions. . . . . . . . . 15
PCI Architecture
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Operating System Support
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
RAID Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Summary of RAID Levels
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
RAID Terminology
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3 Storage Controller Features . . . . . . . . . . 21
Physical Disk Power Management . . . . . . . . . 24
Using the SMART Feature
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Initializing Virtual Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Background Initialization of Virtual Disks
. . . . . 25
Full Initialization of Virtual Disks
. . . . . . . . . . 25
Fast Initialization of Virtual Disks
. . . . . . . . . . 26
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