MSI X2-109 v1 - Manual (Page 20)

1-4 Overview
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1.1.4 Manageability/Disk Console Features
The following features are available to manage the logical and physical
disks in the system:
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Configuration information display (in MegaRAID BIOS Configuration
Utility and MegaRAID Storage Manager software)
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Support for RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 10
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Online mirror rebuilding
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Online consistency checks
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Array management software
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Error logging and notification
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Support for hot device insertion and removal
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Automatic resume of rebuilding on restart
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Support for manual rebuild
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Ability to create up to eight logical drives per configuration
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Auto-configuration support of newly added physical drive
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Support for global hotspares
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Support for disk coercion
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Array initialization support (fast and normal)
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Logical drive availability immediately after creation
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Supported stripe size of 64 Kbytes only
1.2 RAID Overview
This section provides a brief overview of the types of RAID configurations
that Embedded MegaRAID Software supports.
The first step in creating a RAID storage configuration is to configure
physical disk drives in arrays. As defined for Embedded MegaRAID
Software, an array is a group of one to eight physical disks that is seen
by the host computer system as one large disk drive, or logical drive.
Only one RAID level can be assigned to each array.
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A RAID 0 array consists of one to eight physical drives.