Hardware Requirements; Configuration Features; Table 6-1. Configuration Features - Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 3 User Manual

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PERC 3/ QC Feat ures

Hardware Requirements

PERC 3/QC is a high-performance intelligent peripheral component
interconnect (PCI)-to-SCSI host adapter with RAID control capabilities.
PERC 3/QC has four SCSI channels that support 160M and Wide SCSI at
data transfer rates up to 160 MB/s. Each SCSI channel supports up to 15
Wide devices or up to seven narrow devices.
PERC 3/QC 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 II or higher central processing unit (CPU), a diskette drive, a
color monitor, video graphics adapter (VGA) card, and a keyboard. A mouse
is recommended.

Configuration Features

Table 6-1 lists the PERC 3/QC configuration features.
Ta b l e 6 - 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/QC
controllers per system
Online capacity expansion
Dedicated and pool hot spare
Flashable firmware
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Feature
0, 1, 5, 10, and 50
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15
PCI 2.2
Wide 160M
128 MB DIMM
Write-back, write-through, adaptive
read-ahead, non read-ahead, read-
ahead
Up to 40 logical drives per controller
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