HP 8000 - Elite Convertible Minitower PC User Manual

Technical white paper AHCI and RAID on HP Compaq Elite 8000, 8100, 8200, and 8300 Business PCs Table of contents Introduction 3 Basics of

10 RAID 1 with two hard drives (Mirror)) Because it is a very cost-effective way to increase system storage reliability and a great value proposit

11 RAID 5 with three hard drives RAID 5 has been used in servers for many years and is one of the most common types of RAID. RAID 5 uses striping

12 Intel Matrix RAID Technology This technology provides protection against data loss from a hard drive failure and faster access to digital photo,

13 Configurations Recommended configurations HP recommends factory configurations of the preinstalled RAID offerings for HP Elite 8000-series Busi

14 Other supported configurations HP Elite 8000-series Business PC products support two other RAID configurations: • Two-drive configuration: –

15 Configuring RAID on non-factory preinstalled configurations The remaining sections of this white paper describe steps to set up supported RAID

16 Accessing RAID Option ROM You can only access Computer Setup at system startup. To access the Computer Setup Utilities menu and enable RAID: 1.

17 2. Select or enter the desired RAID Level. Use the information on the bottom half of the screen if necessary. 3. Use the arrow keys to scro

18 Notes for operating system installation • After creating a RAID disk volume in the option ROM, you can install the operating system. • HP pr

19 Intel Rapid Storage Technology software installation This section of the paper focuses on how to configure RAID using Intel Rapid Storage Techno

2 Intel Rapid Storage Technology software installation 19 Using the Intel Rapid Storage Console interface to Configure RAID 20 RAID migrations usi

20 Using the Intel Rapid Storage Console interface to Configure RAID 1. Click Start > All Programs > Intel > Intel Rapid Storage Console

21 RAID migrations using Intel Rapid Storage Console Migration to RAID 1 from two non-RAID hard drives NOTE: HP Elite 8000-series Business PC prod

22 Migration to RAID 0 from two non-RAID hard drives NOTE: HP Elite 8000-series Business PC products only support RAID based on two identical SATA

23 Migration to RAID 5 from three non-RAID hard drives NOTE: Back up all data before proceeding. HP Elite 8000-series Business PC products only su

24 12. Reboot the system after the migration finishes. NOTE: Back up all data before proceeding. 13. After the first RAID volume has been create

25 Migration to Matrix RAID 1 and RAID 0 from two non-RAID hard drives The migration process for two hard drives to RAID Matrix Mode (0 + 1) is ver

26 Installation HP desktops come with RAID software preinstalled. However, if reinstallation is necessary, use setup in combination with the suppor

27 Table 8: Language support Abbreviation Language ara Arabic (Saudi Arabia) (0401) chs Chinese (Simplified) (0804) cht Chinese

28 Degradation In the unlikely event that one of your hard drives malfunctions, you will be notified with the following message: If this occurs,

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3 Introduction This white paper covers the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) and Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) drive technol

4 Basics of AHCI and RAID Technology Definitions Table 2: Basic AHCI and RAID Definitions Acronym or term Description AHCI Advanced Host Control

5 Benefits of AHCI AHCI provides several benefits: • Elimination of master/slave handling • Native Command Queuing (NCQ) • Hot-plugging AHCI

6 Enhancing existing Vista or Windows 7 images from IDE mode or native AHCI mode Vista and Windows 7 have a native AHCI driver. If Vista or Window

7 Enhancing existing Windows XP images from IDE Mode Corporate IT may be able to update an existing Windows XP image to be AHCI-compatible that wa

8 Hardware The HP Elite 8000-series Business PCs uses Intel chipsets that support an AHCI capable Host Bus Adapter (HBA). This HBA supports ATA and

9 Figure 1: Performance - RAID 0 with two hard drives At a higher reliability cost with faster performance, the HP Compaq Elite 8000-series Busin