Dell H200 Video Gaming Accessories User Manual


 
52 PERC H200 and 6Gbps SAS HBA BIOS
The PERC H200 card supports a minimum of two drives and maximum of
10 drives for a RAID 0 volume. Two drives are required to configure a RAID 1
volume, and a minimum of four drives and a maximum of 10 drives for a
RAID 10 volume. There can be no more than 14 configured drives in any
system, including a maximum of two global hot spares.A configured drive is a
drive that is part a RAID volume or is a hot spare.
Creating a RAID 0 Virtual Disk
A RAID 0 virtual disk offers the ability to stripe data across multiple physical
disks. RAID 0 volumes offer increased capacity by combining multiple
physical disks into a single virtual disk. RAID 0 volumes also offer increased
performance by striping disk access across multiple physical disks.
Follow these steps to create a RAID 0 virtual disk on a PERC H200 card.
1
Select a controller from the
Adapter List
in the Configuration Utility.
2
Select the
RAID Properties
option.
3
Select
Create
RAID 0
Volume
when you are prompted to create either
a RAID 0 virtual disk, a RAID 1 virtual disk or a RAID 10 virtual disk.
The next screen shows a list of disks that can be added to a virtual disk.
4
Move the cursor to the
RAID Disk
column. To add a disk to the virtual
disk, change
No
to
Yes
by pressing the <+>, <->, or space bar. As disks
are added, the
Virtual Disk Size
field changes to reflect the size of the new
virtual disk.
CAUTION: All data will be lost upon creation of the virtual disk.
There are several limitations when creating a RAID 0 virtual disk:
All disks must be either Dell-compliant SAS or SATA HDDs or SSDs.
SAS and SATA physical disks cannot be used in the same virtual disk.
HDDs or SSDs cannot be used in the same virtual disk.
There must be at least 2 physical disks in a virtual disk.
No more than 10 physical disks are allowed in a virtual disk.
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