Perc 3/Dc And Perc 3/Dcl Features; Hardware Requirements; Configuration Features; Table 5-1. Configuration Features - Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 3 User Manual

NOTE: The PERC 3/DC
has a battery option,
while the PERC 3/DCL
does not have a battery
option.
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PERC 3/ DC and PE RC 3 /DCL Fe atures

Hardware Requirements

PERC 3/DC and PERC 3/DCL have two SCSI channels that support 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/DC and PERC 3/DCL can be installed in a system with a
motherboard that has 5 V, 32- or 64-bit PCI expansion slots. The system
®
should have an Intel Pentium
a diskette drive, a color monitor, video graphics adapter (VGA) card, and a
keyboard. A mouse is recommended.

Configuration Features

The PERC 3/DC and PERC 3/DCL configuration features are shown in
Table 5-1.
Ta b l e 5 - 1 . C o n f i g u r a t i o n Fe a t u r e s
Specification
RAID levels
SCSI channels
Maximum number of drives per channel
Array interface to host
Drive interface
Cache memory size
Cache function
Multiple logical drives/arrays per
controller
Maximum number of PERC 3/DC and
PERC 3/DCL controllers per system
Online capacity expansion
Dedicated and pool hot spare
®
II or higher central processing unit (CPU),
Feature
0, 1, 5, 10, and 50
2
15
PCI 2.2
Wide 160M
64 MB (PERC 3/DCL)
128 MB DIMM (PERC 3/DC)
Write-back, write-through, adaptive
read-ahead, non read-ahead, read-
ahead
Up to 40 logical drives per controller
Contact your Dell™ representative.
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