Supported Controllers; Supported Raid Controllers - Dell iDRAC 8 User Manual

RAID Level Data Availability Read
RAID 10 Excellent
RAID 50 Good
RAID 6 Excellent
RAID 60 Excellent
N = Number of physical disks
X = Number of RAID sets

Supported controllers

Supported RAID controllers

The iDRAC interfaces support the following PERC9 controllers:
• PERC H830
• PERC H730P
• PERC H730
• PERC H330
The iDRAC interfaces support the following PERC8 controllers:
• PERC H810
• PERC H710P
• PERC H710
• PERC H310
The iDRAC interfaces support the following modular PERC controllers:
• PERC FD33xS
• PERC FD33xD
NOTE: For more information on configuring and changing the controller mode on the PERC FD33xS and PERC FD33xD
controllers, see the
dell.com/support/manuals.
Performance
Very Good
Very Good
Sequential
reads: good.
Transactional
reads: Very good
Very Good
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Write Rebuild
Performance Performance
Fair Good
Fair Fair
Fair, unless using Poor
writeback cache
Fair Poor
Minimum Disks Suggested
Required Uses
2N x X Data intensive
environments
(large records).
N + 2 (N = at Medium sized
least 4) transactional or
data intensive
uses.
N + 2 (N = at Critical
least two disks) information.
Databases and
other read
intensive
transactional
uses.
X x (N + 2) (N = Critical
at least 2) information.
Medium sized
transactional or
data intensive
uses.
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