HP xw8600 - Manual (Page 18)

4.
4.
In non-mixed Microsoft
Windows and Linux systems,
rules 2 & 3 apply.
Configure-to-order RAID
configs must all have the
same size/speed hard drives.
Using external enclosures, an
additional 8 channels of SAS
can be supported if there are
no other
* Factory Integrated RAID 0 Configuration (Striped Array) and RAID 1 Configuration (Mirrored Array) requires 2 hard drives
with identical speeds, capacity and interface. Specific user-configured hardware SAS RAID configurations are supported on
this Linux system. Please visit:
http://www.hp.com/support/linux_hardware_matrix for details.If your first HD is a SATA drive,
the 2nd must be also. Mixing of SATA and SAS is not supported under Linux.
QuickSpecs
HP xw8600 Workstation
Storage
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