Dell H700, H800 manual Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller Cards

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Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller Cards

H700 and H800

Technical Guide

Enterprise-class controllers designed for performance, reliability, and fault tolerance.

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Contents Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller Cards March Table of Contents Appendix a TablesOverview Product ComparisonPerc H700 Integrated Additional Sled for PCIe Slot Perc H700 OverviewPerc H700 Modular Perc H800 OverviewPerc H800 Adapter 6Gb/s SAS SAS 2.0 Overview New Features1 6Gb/s SAS Performance Benefit over 3Gb/s SAS Gb/s SAS SAS 2.0 Features2 6Gb/s SAS Expectation SAS Performance DetailsPowerEdge Server Support with Perc H700 and Perc H800 Dell PowerEdge Server SupportProduct Support Management Software SupportOperating System Support with Perc H700 and Perc H800 Drive SupportDrive Support Product Overview Perc H700 and Perc H800 FeaturesPerc H700 and Perc H800 Overview Power Management RAID Level CacheCade Reconfiguring Virtual DisksCut-Through IO RAID Level Migration Fault-Tolerance FeaturesNon-Volatile Cache Using Replace Member and Revertible Hot SparesAutomatic Replace Member with Predicted Failure Physical Disk Hot Swapping Battery Back-up of Controller CacheEnclosure Affinity Disk Roaming Configuring and Managing Secured RAIDDisk Migration Perc H700 and H800 Security Key and RAID ManagementVirtual Disk Read Cache Policies Virtual Disk Write Cache PoliciesRAID Overview RAID 0 Striped Virtual Disk without Fault ToleranceAbout RAID Advantages of RAIDExample of RAID Advantages of RAID RAID 1 MirroringExample of RAID 1 Mirroring RAID 5 Striping With Distributed ParityDrive RAID 6 Striping With Dual Distributed ParityExample of RAID 6 Single Virtual Disk with 5 drives RAID 10 Striping over Mirrored SetsDisadvantages of RAID RAID 50 Striping Across RAIDExample of RAID 50 5 + Advantages of RAID RAID 60 Striping Across RAIDExample of RAID 60 6 + Advantages of RAID Resource Contact Information and Descriptions Appendix A. Additional Resources