Hardware Requirements; Configuration Features; Table 4-1. Configuration Features - Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 3 User Manual

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PERC 3/ SC Feat ures

Hardware Requirements

PERC 3/SC has one SCSI) channel that supports 160M and Wide SCSI at
data transfer rates up to 160 MB/s. The SCSI channel supports up to 15
Wide devices or up to seven narrow devices.
PERC 3/SC can be installed in a Dell™ PowerEdge™ computer with a
motherboard that has 5 V, 32- or 64-bit PCI expansion slots. The computer
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should have an Intel Pentium
a diskette drive, a color monitor and video graphics adapter (VGA) card, and
a keyboard. A mouse is recommended.

Configuration Features

Table 4-1 lists the configuration features for the PERC 3/SC controller.
Ta b l e 4 - 1 . C o n f i g u r a t i o n Fe a t u r e s
Specification
RAID levels
SCSI channels
Maximum number of drives per
channel
Array interface to host
Drive interface
Cache memory size
Cache function
Multiple logical drives/arrays per
controller
Maximum number of PERC 3/SC
controller per system
Online capacity expansion
Dedicated and pool hot spare
Flashable firmware
Hot swap devices supported
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II or higher central processing unit (CPU),
Feature
0, 1, 5, 10, and 50.
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15
PCI 2.2
Wide 160M
32 MB
Write-back, write-through, adaptive
read-ahead, non-read-ahead, read-
ahead
Up to 40 logical drives per controller
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