Dell DC, 3, User Manual

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54 PERC 3/SC Features
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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 n f i g u r a t i o n Fe a t u r e s
Specification Feature
RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50.
SCSI channels 1
Maximum number of drives per
channel
15
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
controller
Up to 40 logical drives per controller
Maximum number of PERC 3/SC
controller per system
Contact your Dell representative.
Online capacity expansion Yes
Dedicated and pool hot spare Yes
Flashable firmware Yes
Hot swap devices supported Yes