OS Drive RAID and EFI Mirroring in SynetoOS

Written By Sebastian Sime (Administrator)

Updated at April 1st, 2026

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→ Applies to: Hyperion 9.x and above
→ Applies to: VMware ESXi 6.5 and above

Starting with G4 generation of Syneto products, most of the systems are using a Linux MD RAID configuration.
These drives are configured during the initial installation of the products in the factory.

 

Syneto Hyperion

Product Generation Syneto OS Version OS Drive RAID EFI Mirroring
G3 / G3 Plus 6.x.x Hardware RAID Automatic (HW RAID)
G4 / G4 Plus 6.0.x → 6.1.x or newer mdraid

NO 
Yes (from 6.1.x)

EFI mirroring available on OS 6.1.x or newer only
Edge G1 / G2 6.0.x NO NO
G5 (AMD) — 1000(T) 6.0.x NO NO
G5 Plus (AMD) — 1000(T) 6.0.1 → 6.0.x mdraid NO
G5 (Intel Xeon 6) 6.1.0 or newer mdraid YES

 

 

VMware ESXi

Product Generation Syneto OS Version OS Drive RAID EFI Mirroring
G3 / G3 Plus 4.x.x → 6.x.x Hardware RAID Automatic (HW RAID)
Edge G1 / G2 4.x.x → 6.x.x NO NO
Echo G1 5.x.x → 6.x.x Hardware RAID NO
Echo G2 5.x.x → 6.x.x mdraid NO
G4 / G4 Plus 5.x.x → 6.0.x mdraid NO
G4 (Intel) 5.x.x
Early models: No
Later models: Yes (mdraid)
NO
G5 (AMD) 5.x.x → 6.0.x NO NO
G5 Plus (AMD) 6.0.1 → 6.0.x mdraid NO
G5 (Intel Xeon 6) 6.1.0 or newer mdraid NO