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Mirror NVME drives on the EliteDesk 800 G4&G5 Mini using
Mirror NVME drives on the EliteDesk 800 G4&G5 Mini using hardware RAID
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The HP EliteDesk 800 G4 and G5 Min support dual M.2 NVME drives and with that comes hardware RAID supported by the BIOS. In this video we walk through the steps to enable hardware RAID and install Windows 11 and see what happens when one of the drives “fails”.
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You show the very reason I stopped putting RAID 1 on my customer machines. When one of the drives goes bad, you don't get any indication of failure. Some BIOSes give no notification, some give an error for a few seconds and proceed, some give an error and require a user action to proceed with the boot. In the first two cases, the user will probably not notice that there is anything wrong. In the last case, the user needs only acknowledge the prompt and the boot continues without corrective being needed. Thus the whole idea of having a mirror is wasted and nobody knows there is anything wrong until both drives are bad. Don't fool yourself into thinking that the user in the third case will report a problem.
Interesting. TBH I would have been surprised if an NVME in the e-key slot had bios support for RAID as it's not a "normal" configuration for hardware RAID. However, does the controller recognise an SATA drive as a valid RAID drive? If it does that will give three drives (with the two m.2) to stripe but your bandwidth will be limited by the SATA interface speed … However, as an idea, if you used software RAID and the SATA as the parity drive, would that squeeze more performance out of the m.2 drives than as a straight hardware RAID (if you can do it)? May be worth a test …
Really useful video as I'm looking to have a second home lab server and having two NVME drives which can be set in raid is useful to have. Thanks for making the video.