Dell 3 manual Hardware Requirements, Configuration Features, Specification Feature

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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 should have an Intel® Pentium® II or higher central processing unit (CPU), 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 nf i g u r a t i o n Fe at u r e s

Specification	Feature
RAID levels	0, 1, 5, 10, and 50.
SCSI channels	1
Maximum number of drives per	15
channel
Array interface to host	PCI 2.2
Drive interface	Wide 160M
Cache memory size	32 MB
Cache function	Write-back, write-through, adaptive
	read-ahead, non-read-ahead, read-
	ahead
Multiple logical drives/arrays per	Up to 40 logical drives per controller
controller
Maximum number of PERC 3/SC	Contact your Dell representative.
controller per system
Online capacity expansion	Yes
Dedicated and pool hot spare	Yes
Flashable firmware	Yes
Hot swap devices supported	Yes

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PERC 3/SC Features