AHCI and RAID on HP Elite 8100 Business PCs

• HP also recommends keeping the default options in the RAID Option ROM and in the Win-

dows RAID application. Options like “chunk” size for changing the size “stripe” size have

more history in their defaults settings.

Other supported configurations

HP Elite 8100 Business PC products support two other RAID configurations:

• Two hard drive configuration.

• Two equal size/type SATA hard drive RAID configurations in RAID 0 or RAID 1 or Matrix

Mode of RAID 0 and RAID 1.

• Maximum of two SATA optical drives (on HP Elite 8100 Business PC Convertible Minitowers).

• Three hard drive configuration (only on HP Elite 8100 Business PC Convertible Minitowers).

• Three equal size/type SATA hard drive RAID configurations in RAID 0 or RAID 5 or Matrix

Mode of RAID and RAID 5.

• Maximum of one SATA optical drives.

Unsupported configurations

HP Elite 8100 Business Desktop PC products only support the best user experience and highest possible

reliability. As a result, HP does not support the following combinations of RAID hard drives:

• Different sizes

• Different speeds (5400 rpm, 7200 rpm, etc)

• Old and new technologies (SATA 1.5 GB and SATA 3.0 GB)

• NCQ hard drives and non-NCQ drives

• Different cache size

• RAID combinations of hard drives with any operating system other than Windows XP Pro (SP2/SP3),

Windows Vista SP1/SP2, and Windows 7 using Microsoft’s IDE driver stack based on ATAPI.SYS