Personal Computer User Manual

usingthisadapter,refertothecompleteMegaRAIDSASSoftwareUserGuidethatisavailableat
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/guides-and-manuals/detail.page?DocID=UM007543.
Thissectionprovidesinformationaboutthefollowingtopics:
•“InstallingSATAorSASharddiskdrives”onpage76
•“EnteringtheLSIMegaRAIDBIOScongurationutility”onpage77
•“CreatingRAIDvolumesusingtheLSIMegaRAIDBIOScongurationutility”onpage77
•“DeletingRAIDvolumesusingtheLSIMegaRAIDBIOScongurationutility”onpage78
•“Settingthehotspareharddiskdrive”onpage78
InstallingSATAorSASharddiskdrives
EnsurethatyourcomputerhastheminimumnumberofSATAorSASharddiskdrivesinstalledforthe
followingsupportedlevelsofRAID:
•RAIDLevel0-Stripeddiskarray
–ARAIDLevel0harddiskdrivegroupconsistingofatleastoneharddiskdrive
–Supportedstripsize:8KBto1MB
–Betterperformancewithoutfaulttolerance
•RAIDLevel00-SpannedharddiskdrivegroupwithaseriesofRAID0harddiskdrivegroups
–ARAIDLevel00harddiskdrivegroupconsistingoftwoorfourharddiskdrives
–Supportedstripsize:8KBto1MB
–Betterperformancewithoutfaulttolerance
•RAIDLevel1-Mirroreddiskarray
–ARAIDLevel1harddiskdrivegroupconsistingoftwoorfourharddiskdrives
–Improvedreadperformanceand100%redundancy
•RAIDLevel10-AcombinationofRAIDLevel0andRAIDLevel1
–ARAIDLevel10harddiskdrivegroupconsistingoffourharddiskdrives
–Databeingstripedacrossharddiskdrivegroups
–Providesbothhighdatatransferratesandcompletedataredundancy
•RAIDLevel5-Block-levelstripeddiskarraywithdistributedparity
–ARAIDLevel5harddiskdrivegroupconsistingofatleastthreeharddiskdrives
–Supportedstripsize:8KBto1MB
–Betterperformanceandfaulttolerance
–RAIDLevel5mightnotbeavailableonallmodelsofLSIMegaRAIDadapter
•RAIDLevel6-Block-levelstripeddiskarraywithdualdistributedparity
–ARAIDLevel6harddiskdrivegroupconsistingofatleastfourharddiskdrives
–Supportedstripsize:8KBto1MB
–Betterperformanceandfaulttolerancethatcanstanduptolossoftwoharddiskdrives
–RAIDLevel6mightnotbeavailableonallmodelsofLSIMegaRAIDadapter
EnsurethattheLSIMegaRAIDSASadaptercardisinstalledinyourcomputer,andthattheharddiskdrives
areconnectedtothisadaptercardandnottotheconnectorsonthesystemboard.
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