Overview - Dell H310 User Manual

Overview

The Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H310, H710, H710P, and H810 family of storage controller cards has the
following characteristics:
• Complies with serial-attached SCSI (SAS) 2.0 providing up to 6 Gb/sec throughput.
• Supports Dell-qualified serial-attached SCSI (SAS) hard drives, SATA hard drives, and solid-state drives (SSDs).
NOTE: Mixing SAS and SATA drives within a virtual disk is not supported. Also, mixing hard drives and
SSDs within a virtual disk is not supported.
NOTE: Mixing disks of different speeds (7,200 rpm, 10,000 rpm, or 15,000 rpm) and bandwidth (3 Gbps or 6
Gbps) PCIe while maintaining the same drive type (SAS or SATA) and technology (HDD or SSD) is
supported.
• Offers RAID control capabilities which include support for RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60.
NOTE: PERC H310 supports RAID 5 with limited performance and does not support RAID 6 and RAID 60.
• Provides reliability, high performance, and fault-tolerant disk subsystem management.
• Offers Non-RAID support for direct access to disk drives (PERC H310 only).
NOTE: Operating systems can directly access Non-RAID hard drives. A Non-RAID hard drive is not fault-
tolerant and cannot be recovered if it fails. Only the PERC H310 controller allows configuration of disk
drives as Non-RAID.
The following table compares the hardware configurations for the PERC H310, H710, H710P, and H810 cards.
Table 1. PERC H310, H710, H710P, and H810 Cards Hardware Configurations
Specification H310
RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, 10, 50
Enclosures Per Port Not Applicable
Processor Dell Adapter SAS
RAID-on- Chip, 8-
port with LSI 2008
chipset
Backup Battery Unit No
(BBU)
Non-Volatile Cache Not Applicable
Cache Memory Not Applicable
Cache Function Not Applicable
H710 H710P
0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
Not Applicable Not Applicable
Dell Adapter SAS Dell Adapter SAS RAID-
RAID-on- Chip, 8- on- Chip, 8-port with
port with LSI 2008 LSI 2008 chipset
chipset
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
512 MB DDR3 800 1 GB DDR3 1333 Mhz
Mhz
Write Back, Write Write Back, Write
Through, Adaptive Through, Adaptive
Read Ahead, No Read Ahead, No Read
Read Ahead, Read Ahead, Read Ahead
Ahead
1
H810
0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
Up to four enclosures
Dell Adapter SAS RAID-
on- Chip, 8-port with LSI
2008 chipset
Yes
Yes
1 GB DDR3 1333 Mhz
Write Back, Write
Through, Adaptive Read
Ahead, No Read Ahead,
Read Ahead
9