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January 23rd, 2012 10:00

I couldn't find anything definitive, as far as documentation goes, but only the "mini-tower" version has bays for two drives, so the option may not be available in the BIOS (probably under drives/SATA operation) on other chassis versions (desktop, small form factors).  Also, you must have two like hard drives in order for the CTRL-I option to appear during POST ... CTRL-I is where you configure and manage the RAID.

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January 24th, 2012 03:00

Hi there,

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but the Optiplex 390 comes with the Intel H61 Express chipset which has no RAID capabilities - this is why you cannot select any RAID options in the BIOS.

I hope this answers your question but if you have any other queries, please don't hesitate to get back in touch.

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January 24th, 2012 07:00

Well there ya have it :)  Although the Dell Optiplex 390 documentation references the CTRL-I,  it is probably a generic reference for all systems.  I almost checked earlier, but I could have sworn I'd seen it as an option to configure - must have been a different machine:

downloadmirror.intel.com/.../DH61CR_TechProdSpec02.pdf

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