Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H200 - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
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Contents
1 CAUTION: Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . 9
SAFETY: General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
SAFETY: When Working Inside Your System . . . . . . 10
Protecting Against Electrostatic Discharge . . . . . . 10
SAFETY: Battery Disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Operating System Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
About RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
RAID Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
RAID Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
RAID 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
RAID 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
RAID 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3 PERC H200 and 6Gbps SAS
HBA Features
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
LED Port Activity Feature for 6Gbps
SAS HBA Only
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Physical Disk Cache Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Unsupported Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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