AHCI and RAID on HP Compaq Elite 8000, 8100, and 8200 Business PCs

7. Click Next.

8. Select all hard drive members of the RAID volume, and then click the right

arrow to place the (port 2 and port 3) hard drives in the selected box.

NOTE

If users consume all available storage for this RAID

volume, there will be no space to create another RAID

volume for this hard drive, thereby not allowing for Matrix

RAID Mode. Note the size if you want to create a second

RAID volume in this set of hard drives.

9. To create two volumes based on your space, reliability and performance

needs, select the size of the first RAID volume by sliding the bar or entering the

desired volume size. For example, divide in half the available hard drive

storage in two RAID volumes by setting the Percentage of Available Space to

50%, so that 50% of drive capacity is used for RAID 0.

10. Click Next.

11. Click Finish to start the migration process, which can take a few hours.

12. Reboot the system after the migration finishes.

NOTE

Back up all data before proceeding.

13. After the first RAID volume has been created, create the second RAID volume

by opening the Intel Rapid Storage Console, clicking View > Advanced Mode,

and then clicking Actions/Create RAID Volume from Existing Hard Drive.

14. Click Next.

15. Use the same values you entered in the previous RAID volume confirmation and

type the RAID Volume Name, select the RAID Level (for three hard drive RAID 0

or RAID 5 only), and select the Strip Size.

NOTE

HP currently supports only the default Strip Size (in this

case 64KB).

16. Click Next to see the selection of hard drives that will be part of this RAID

volume.

17. Because this is the second volume for this set of hard drives, select the existing

name in the Available box (Array 0000), and then click the right arrow to

move this array into the Selected box.

18. Click Next.

The Specify Volume Size screen is grayed out because the second volume of this

Matrix RAID Mode takes the remaining space. After the selection of the all hard

drive members of this RAID volume, follow the volume size selection screen.