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Table 3-1. Features of the PERC S100 controller and PERC S300 controller (continued)

RAID Controller Feature	Description
Mirror rebuilding	A broken mirror can be rebuilt after a new physical disk is
	inserted and the physical disk is designated as a hot spare.
	The system does not have to be rebooted.
Online Capacity	OCE is a process that allows you to add storage capacity to an
Expansion (OCE)	existing virtual disk. In most cases additional storage capacity
	can be added without taking the system offline. However, if
	an additional physical disk needs to be added and the system
	does not support hot-swapping, the system must be turned
	off.
	OCE enables you to increase the total storage capacity of a
	virtual disk by integrating unused storage with the virtual
	disk.
	Data can be accessed while the physical disks are added (if a
	system has hot-swap capability) and while data on the virtual
	disk is being redistributed.
	For Volume and RAID 1, OCE expands the virtual disk by
	using the available space of the physical disks that are already
	members of the virtual disk. For RAID 0, RAID 5 and RAID
	10, additional capacity can be attained by adding physical
	disks to the virtual disk.
Physical disks	The PERC S100 adapter supports up to four SATA HDD or
(general)	SSD physical disks. The PERC S300 adapter supports up to
	eight SAS or SATA HDD physical disks.
	NOTE: The physical disks in a virtual disk must be the same
	interface and drive type (HDD or SSD). For example, you cannot
	mix a SATA and SAS interface (HDD or SSD), or HDD and SSD
	physical disks, in the same virtual disk.
	A maximum of eight physical disks can be used for RAID 0
	and RAID 5. A maximum of two physical disks can be used
	for RAID 1. A maximum of four physical disks can be used for
	RAID 10.
	If a physical disk fails during system startup, the controller
	identifies the failed physical disk as follows:
	• At the PERC Virtual Disk Management utility by
	highlighting the failed physical disk in a virtual disk in red.

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