AHCI and RAID on HP Compaq Elite 8000, 8100, 8200, and 8300 Business PCs - Technical White Paper

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Other supported configurations
HP Elite 8000-series Business PC products support two other RAID configurations:
• Two-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 8000-series Business PC Convertible Minitowers).
• Three-drive configuration (only on HP Elite 8000-series 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 8000-series Business Desktop PC products only support configurations offering 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