Lenovo ThinkStation P710 User Manual

Also see for ThinkStation P510: Hardware Maintenance Manual Hardware configuration Configuration manual

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3. Use the up and down arrow keys and the space key to mark individual hard disk drive to be reset,and then press Enter to complete the selection.4. When prompted, press Y to confirm the reset action.5. If the hard disk drive you reset is part of a RAID volume, the computer might detect that the RAID volumeis degraded. In this case, you are prompted to select a hard disk drive to initiate a rebuild process.6. Select an available hard disk drive, and then press Enter to initiate the rebuild process.Note: Press Esc to cancel a rebuild process and keep the RAID volume in the degraded status. In theMain Menu window under DISK/VOLUME INFORMATION, you will see the status of the RAID volumeis changed to Degraded.Quick RAID setup using the LSI MegaRAID BIOS configuration utilityNotes:• The LSI MegaRAID SAS adapter and the LSI MegaRAID BIOS configuration utility are only availableon some models.• The following steps in this section are intended to guide you through a quick setup of basicRAID functions with the LSI MegaRAID SAS adapter. For advanced setup and configurationusing this adapter, refer to the complete MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide that is available athttp://support.lenovo.com/en_US/guides-and-manuals/detail.page?DocID=UM007543.This section provides information about the following topics:• “Installing SATA or SAS hard disk drives” on page 46• “Entering the LSI MegaRAID BIOS configuration utility” on page 47• “Creating RAID volumes using the LSI MegaRAID BIOS configuration utility” on page 47• “Deleting RAID volumes using the LSI MegaRAID BIOS configuration utility” on page 48• “Setting the hot spare hard disk drive” on page 48Installing SATA or SAS hard disk drivesEnsure that your computer has the minimum number of SATA or SAS hard disk drives installed for thefollowing supported levels of RAID:• RAID Level 0 - Striped disk array– A RAID Level 0 hard disk drive group consisting of at least one hard disk drive– Supported strip size: 8 KB to 1 MB– Better performance without fault tolerance• RAID Level 00 - Spanned hard disk drive group with a series of RAID 0 hard disk drive groups– A RAID Level 00 hard disk drive group consisting of two or four hard disk drives– Supported strip size: 8 KB to 1 MB– Better performance without fault tolerance• RAID Level 1 - Mirrored disk array– A RAID Level 1 hard disk drive group consisting of two or four hard disk drives– Improved read performance and 100% redundancy• RAID Level 10 - A combination of RAID Level 0 and RAID Level 1– A RAID Level 10 hard disk drive group consisting of four hard disk drives– Data being striped across hard disk drive groups– Provides both high data transfer rates and complete data redundancy46 ThinkStation P510 and P710 User Guide