Technical information

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Table 2 RAID Drives
INF Information file (.inf) used by Microsoft operating systems that support the Plug & Play feature.
When installing a driver, this file provides the operating system needed information about driver
filenames, driver components, and supported hardware.
Migration Term used to describe the movement of data from one configuration or usage model to another.
NCQ Native Command Queuing.
Option ROM Piece or software module inside the System BIOS which provides extended support for a partic-
ular piece of hardware. The RAID Option ROM provides boot support for RAID volumes as well
as a user interface for managing and configuring the systems RAID volumes.
PCI Peripheral Components Interface.
PCIe PCI express. A serial version of PCI.
PnP Plug and Play.
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks.
ROM Read Only Memory.
SATA Serial ATA.
Strip Set of data on a single hard drive in a RAID volume.
Stripe Group of all strips going horizontally across all the hard drive members of a RAID volume.
Mode Purpose Minimal HDD Required
RAID 0 Striped for Performance. 2
RAID 1 Mirrored for Protection. 2
RAID 5 Parity for Accuracy. 3
RAID 0 + 1 Mirrored and Striped. 4*
Intel’s Matrix Technology 4 logical drives on 2 physical disks,
to emulate RAID 0 and 1.
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* Not supported on HP Compaq dc7700 and dx7300 Business PCs.