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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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