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Filling empty drive bays
Empty drive bays in the server must be filled by empty drive carriers or empty drive trays,
as appropriate. With the bezel removed, install the appropriate carrier, then replace the
bezel by snapping it into place on the front of the server. Empty drive carriers for unused
drive bays are included with your server.
Configuring your onboard RAID solutions
Your server comes equipped with an onboard, chipset SCSI RAID solution, which supports
RAID levels 0 (striping) and 1 (mirroring). The onboard RAID solutions can be enabled in
the BIOS (
page 154 ) and configured by launching the appropriate RAID BIOS console
during the boot process.
Configuring the onboard SCSI RAID solution
To launch the SCSI RAID BIOS console:
1
Restart your server.
2
Press F2 when the Gateway logo screen appears during startup. The BIOS Setup utility
opens.
3
From the Main BIOS menu, select the Advanced menu.
4
Select the PCI Configuration sub-menu.
5
For the Onboard SCSI option, click Enabled .
6
Exit the BIOS Setup utility.
7
Restart your server.
Level Description and use Pros Cons Number
of drives Fault
Tolerant
0 Data divided into blocks and
distributed sequentially (pure
striping). Use for non-critical data
that requires high performance High data
throughput for
large files No fault tolerance.
Data is lost if a drive
fails. One or
two No
1 Data duplicated on another disk
(mirroring). Use for
read-intensive, fault-tolerant
systems. 100 percent
data
redundancy,
providing fault
tolerance. More disk space
required. Reduces
usable disk space
to the size of the
smallest drive.
Reduced
performance during
rebuilds. Two Yes
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