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OverviewThe Dell™ PowerEdge™ RAID Controller (PERC) H200 and the 6Gbps
SASHBA cards are part of the third generation of the Dell Serial-Attached
SCSI(SAS) RAID controllers. The PERC H200 and 6Gbps SAS HBA cards
comply with the T10 SAS 2.0 specification, providing upto 6 Gb/sec throughput,
and improved hardware performance.
The PERC H200 card has integrated RAID capabilities and enables support for
Dell-qualified hard drives and solid-state drives (SSD). The card also enables
support for internal tape drives in PowerEdge systems only. The 6Gbps SAS HBA
provides support for Dell-supported external SAS tape devices.
The PERC H200 and 6Gbps SAS HBA cards are all standard half-length,
half-height PCI-E cards, except for the PERC H200 Integrated Modular
controller on the blade systems.
The PERC H200 and 6Gbps SAS HBA cards are supported with PCI-E x8 link
width. The cards can be used on platforms with PCI-E x8 and x16 connectors,
and communicates with SAS devices using 2x4 mini-SAS external
connectors. The PERC H200 Integrated Modular controller supports PCI-E
x4 link width only.
Key features of the PERC H200 and 6Gbps SAS HBA cards include
• SAS 2.0 compliance, 6Gb/sec throughput
• RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 10 functionality
• Support for SSDs
• Support for LT03 060, LT04, and LT05 tape drives
• Support for full hardware Transport Layer Retry (TLR), to improve
maximum tape throughput
• Mini-SAS connectors
• PCI-E 2.0 compliant to key features
• Support for two global hotspares
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