Gateway 9315 - Manual (Page 66)

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Configuring your onboard RAID solution
Your server comes equipped with an onboard, chipset SATA RAID solution, which supports
RAID levels 0 (striping) and 1 (mirroring). The onboard RAID solution can be enabled in
the BIOS (
page 133 ) and configured by launching the RAID BIOS console during the boot
process.
Configuring the onboard SATA RAID solution
To launch the SATA 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 IDE Configuration sub-menu.
5
For the Configure S-ATA as RAID option, select Enabled .
6
Exit the BIOS Setup utility.
7
Restart your server.
8
During the boot process you will see the following message:
Press <Ctrl>-<E> for BIOS Console
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