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•RAIDLevel0–Stripeddiskarray
–Twoharddiskdrivesminimum
–Betterperformancewithoutfaulttolerance
•RAIDLevel1–Mirroreddiskarray
–Twoharddiskdrivesminimum
–Improvedreadperformanceand100%redundancy
•RAIDLevel5–Block-levelstripeddiskarraywithdistributedparity
–Threeharddiskdrivesminimum
–Datastripedatthebytelevel
–Stripeerrorcorrectioninformation
–Betterperformanceandfaulttolerance
ToinstallanewSASharddiskdrive,refertotheinstallationprocedurein“Replacingaharddiskdrive”inthe
ThinkStationHardwareInstallationandReplacementGuide.
EnteringtheMarvellBIOSSetuptocongureSASRAID
ThissectiondescribeshowtoentertheMarvellBIOSSetuptocongureSASRAID.
1.YourcomputermusthaveaMarvellSASadaptercard(MarvellSAScontroller)installedtocongure
SASRAID.ForinstallingorreplacingaMarvellSASadaptercard,referto“Replacinganadaptercard”
intheThinkStationHardwareInstallationandReplacementGuide.
2.TurnonthecomputerafteryouhaveinstalledtherequirednumberofSASharddiskdrivesandthe
MarvellSASadaptercard.
3.PressCtrl+MwhenpromptedtoentertheMarvellBIOSSetuptocongureSASRAID.
ConguringtheMarvellBIOSSetuptoenableSASRAID0,1,or5
functionality
ToenableSASRAID0,1,or5functionality,usetheMarvellBIOSSetupcongurationutilityastheSAS
congurationutility.Thisutilityassumesthatthesystemhastherequirednumberofharddiskdrives.
1.TurnonyourcomputerandpressCtrl+MwhenpromptedtoentertheMarvellBIOSSetup.
2.OntheMarvellBIOSSetupscreen,usethearrowkeystoselectRAIDCongandpressEnter.The
RAIDCongmenuopens.
3.FromtheRAIDCongmenu,selectCreatearray.
4.UsethearrowkeysandtheEnterkeytoselecteachfreeharddiskdrivethatyouwanttoinclude
inthearray.
5.SelectNextandpressEnter.
6.FromtheCreatearraymenu,selectRAIDlevelandpressEnter.
Note:OnlythevalidRAIDlevelswillbeactive.
7.SelecttheSASRAIDlevelyouwant(RAID0,RAID1,orRAID5)andpressEnter.
8.FromtheStripesizemenu,youcanchangethestripesizeorkeepitasdefault.
9.TypeaproperarraynameintheArraynameeld.
10.SelectNextandpressEnter.Whenprompted,pressYtocompletethearraycreationandRAID
conguration.
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