Specifications

Table 3-2 compares the specifications of the PERC S100 adapter and PERC S300 adapter.

Table 3-2. Specifications for the PERC S100 adapter and PERC S300 adapter

Specification	PERC S100 adapter	PERC S300 adapter

SAS technology	No	Yes

SATA technology	Yes	Yes

eSATA technology	Yes	No

SSD technology	Yes	No

Support for x8 PCI-E Host Interface	No	Yes

I/O Controller	Intel ICH10R or	Dell 3Gb/s SAS
	Intel Ibex Peak chipsets	Adapter
	or Intel Cougar Point
	chipsets

Communication to the system	Integrated	PCI-E lanes

Communication to end devices	SATA links	SAS/SATA links

SAS connectors	No	Two 4-port connectors
		on all systems

SATA connectors	Discrete on the	Two 4-port connectors
	motherboard	on all systems

Lead-free	Yes	Yes

Supported operating systems	Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Family,
	Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Family,
	Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

Dell-compliant SATA compatibility	Yes	Yes

Dell-compliant SAS compatibility	No	Yes

Dell-supported direct-connected	Dell-compliant	Dell-compliant
end devices	physical disks	physical disks

*SMART error support through	Yes	Yes
management applications

Backplane supported systems	No	Yes

Dell S100, S300 manual Specifications