Quickspecs – HP xw8600 User Manual

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1-5 Hard Disk Drives –
Up to 5 SATA drives, 5
SAS* drives, or 6 SAS
Small Form Factor
(SFF)* drives

SATA Hard Drive (if 1st drive is SATA, 2nd
drive can be EITHER SATA or SAS)

Windows Vista Windows XP

Red Hat

Enterprise

Linux

80 GB 7200 rpm SATA 3.0 Gb/s drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

WS 4 & 5

160 GB 7200 rpm SATA 3.0 Gb/s NCQ

drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

WS 4 & 5

250 GB 7200 rpm SATA 3.0 Gb/s NCQ

drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

WS 4 & 5

500 GB 7200 rpm SATA 3.0 Gb/s NCQ

drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

WS 4 & 5

1 TB 7200 rpm SATA 3.0 Gb/s NCQ

drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

WS 4 & 5

80 GB 10K rpm SATA NCQ

drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

WS 4 & 5

160 GB 10K rpm SATA NCQ

drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

WS 4 & 5

160 GB 10K rpm SATA NCQ

drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

WS 4 & 5

SAS Hard Drive
(8 port SAS Controller included on the system
board)

Windows Vista

Windows XP

Red Hat

Enterprise

Linux

146 GB 10K rpm Small Form Factor SAS 3.0
Gb/s drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

WS 4 & 5

73 GB 10K rpm Small Form Factor SAS 3.0
Gb/s drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

WS 4 & 5

73 GB 15K rpm SAS 3.0 Gb/s drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

WS 4 & 5

146 GB 15K rpm SAS 3.0 Gb/s drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

WS 4 & 5

300 GB 15K rpm SAS 3.0 Gb/s drive

32-Bit, 64-Bit

WS 4 & 5

* NCQ (Native Command Queuing) not supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Factory Integrated
RAID

on motherboard

for SATA and SAS
drives
All RAID arrays must be
less than 2 TB in size

Windows Vista

Windows XP

Red Hat

Enterprise

Linux

RAID 0 Configuration - Striped Array
Minimum of 2 hard drives needed. All hard
drives must be identical
(size/speed/type/bus/functional capabilities).
Must have 2, 3 or 4 HD Drives.

32-Bit, 64-Bit

Not supported

RAID 0 Configuration - Data Array
Minimum of 3 SATA hard drives needed. All
hard drives must be identical
(size/speed/type/bus/functional capabilities).
At least 3 HD Drives required. May have 4th
and 5th HD Drives. Drives must be the same
drive (size/speed/type/functional capability).

Not factory

integrated

32-Bit, 64-Bit

Not supported

RAID 1 Configuration - Mirrored Array
2 SATA or 2 SAS hard drives required. All
hard drives must be identical
(size/speed/type/bus/functional capabilities).

32-Bit, 64-Bit

Not supported

RAID 10 Configuration - Striped/Mirrored
Array
4 hard drives needed. All hard drives must be
identical (size/speed/type/bus/functional
capabilities). Must have 4 HD Drives.

Not factory

integrated

32-Bit, 64-Bit

Not supported

QuickSpecs

HP xw8600 Workstation

Standard Features - Custom Components

DA - 12849 Worldwide QuickSpecs — Version 10 — 6.1.2008

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