
CONFIGURATION GUIDE – NEC Express5800/R120d-2E
NEC Corporation Revision 4.0 – December 21, 2012 14
4 Internal Hard Disk Drives
4.1 RAID Configuration
Refer to the section in accordance with your disk form factor and RAID configuration.
Up to eight 2.5-inch Drives
Up to sixteen 2.5-inch Drives
NOTE:
Up to four hard drives can be installed in the Embedded SATA configuration.
Hot plug insertion/removal are not supported in the Embedded SATA configuration.
All drives within a RAID array should be of the same type, capacity and rotation speed.
Up to two kinds of drives can be mixed in a drive cage.
To configure a large-capacity RAID array, it is recommended to configure in RAID 6 or RAID 60 in
order to minimize the risk of becoming multiple hard drives failure during the RAID rebuilding process.
It is recommended to set RAID array configuration drives less than eight in order to minimize the risk
of becoming multiple hard drives failure.
For optional RAID controller driver to install Windows Server 2003 R2, download from the NEC
website at:
http://www.nec.com/en/global/prod/express/download/index.html
RAID 5/6/50/60
RAID 5/6/50/60
Refer to 4.2.4
Refer to 4.2.4
Refer to 4.2.5
Refer to 4.2.5
Available Interface
Available Interface
Embedded SATA
RAID Controller
Refer to 4.2.6
Refer to 4.2.5
Refer to 4.2.9
Refer to 4.2.9
Refer to 4.2.10
Refer to 4.2.9
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