Product Comparison; Overview; Table 1. Comparison Of Perc H700 And Perc H800 To Previous Perc 6/I And Perc 6/E - Dell POWEREDGE RADI H700 Technical Manual

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1 Product Comparison

Overview

1.1
The PERC H700 (internal) and PERC H800 (external) RAID controllers mark the next stage in the
evolution of the Dell™ PowerEdge™ RAID controller portfolio with the introduction of 6Gb/s SAS (SAS
2.0). PERC H700 and H800 will be supported in PowerEdge 11
follow-on to the PERC 6/I, and the PERC H800 is the follow-on to the PERC 6/E.
Table 1. Comparison of PERC H700 and PERC H800 to previous PERC 6/I and PERC 6/E
Feature/Spec
Interface
Bus support
Ports / Channels
Int/Ext
Connectors
Cache Memory
Battery-Backed
Cache
RAID Levels
Max physical
drives in Large
RAID volume
(R10, R50, R60)
HDD Support
SSD Support
SED Support
Controller
Firmware
(latest rev)
Redundant Path
I/O Load
Balancing
Cluster Support
Storage
Management
DELL PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guide
NEW
PERC 6/I
PERC H700
6Gb (SAS 2.0) 3Gb (SAS 1.1)
x8 PCIe 2.0 x8 PCIe 1.0
8 (2 x4) 8 (2 x4)
2 internal
2 internal
512MB BBU 512MB
Non-Volatile 256MB
Cache
(667 MHz DDR2)
(800 MHz DDR2)
Yes Yes
0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50,
60 60
16 10
SAS and SATA SAS and SATA
SAS and SATA SATA
Yes (Local Key
Not Supported
Management)
7.1 6.2
No No
No No
No No
OpenManage™ 6.2 OpenManage™ 5.4
(minimum rev) (minimum rev)
th
Generation servers. The PERC H700 is
NEW
PERC 6/E
PERC H800
6Gb (SAS 2.0) 3Gb (SAS 1.1)
x8 PCIe 2.0 x8 PCIe 1.0
8 (2 x4) 8 (2 x4)
2 external 2 external
512MB TBBU
512MB TNVC
256MB / 512MB
(667 MHz DDR2)
1GB TNVC
(800 MHz DDR2)
Yes Yes
Transportable Transportable
0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50,
60 60
192 144
(8x MD1220) (6x MD1120)
SAS only SAS and SATA
SAS only Not Supported
Yes (Local Key
Not Supported
Management)
7.1 6.2
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
No No
OpenManage™ 6.2 OpenManage™ 5.4
(minimum rev) (minimum rev)
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