Poweredge Raid Controllers; Table 15. Supported Raid Controllers - Dell PowerEdge R630 Technical Manual

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PowerEdge RAID Controllers

PERC cards provide enhanced performance, increased reliability and fault tolerance, and simplified
management for a powerful, easy-to-manage way to create a robust infrastructure and help
maximize server uptime. The new line, PERC9, cards feature:

PCIe 3.0 support and 12Gb/s SAS host interface

Significantly increased IOPS performance and throughput performance capability

Capable of RAID as well as non-RAID operations

FastPath™ I/O for accelerating performance when operating on SSDs

Split Mirror function for breaking mirrored disk connection to quickly replace a drive

Dimmer Switch™ for power control of spare or idle drives to save energy and operating
expenses
The base RAID controller in the R630 is the miniPERC, which provides a base RAID hardware
controller without consuming a PCIe slot by using a small form factor and high-density connector
to the base planar. The secondary RAID controller is limited to the H730P low-profile PCIe
controller. In two-controller systems, both controllers must be the H730P.
The R630 supports the PERC cards listed in Table 15. For more information about the latest PERC
offerings, see Dell.com/PERC.
Controller Features

External 8-port 12Gb/s SAS

Supports up to 255 SAS HDDs or SSDs
PERC H830

2GB 1866MT/s DDR3 SDRAM non-
volatile cache
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Description
FS8600 (with Dell Storage SC8000 and SC4020)
FS76x0 (with Dell Storage PS Series)
PowerVault NX400
Dell Storage NX3230
Dell Storage NX3330
DR Series
DL4000, DL1000
AppAssure
vRanger
NetVault
TL1000, TL2000, TL4000, ML6000 Series
Table 15. Supported RAID controllers
RAID
Form
modes
factor
supported
0, 1, 10, 5,
Adapter
50, 6, 60
Solution
Performance-
hungry external
storage
environments