Hardware requirements, Configuration features – Dell 3 User Manual

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PERC 3/DC and PERC 3/DCL Features

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Hardware Requirements

NOTE: The PERC 3/DC

has a battery option,
while the PERC 3/DCL
does not have a battery
option.

PERC 3/DC and PERC 3/DCL have two SCSI channels that support 160M
and Wide SCSI at data transfer rates up to 160 MB/s. The SCSI channel
supports up to 15 Wide devices or up to seven narrow devices.

PERC 3/DC and PERC 3/DCL 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

The PERC 3/DC and PERC 3/DCL configuration features are shown in
Table 5-1.

Ta b l e 5 - 1 . C o n f i g u r a t i o n Fe a t u r e s

Specification

Feature

RAID levels

0, 1, 5, 10, and 50

SCSI channels

2

Maximum number of drives per channel

15

Array interface to host

PCI 2.2

Drive interface

Wide 160M

Cache memory size

64 MB (PERC 3/DCL)
128 MB DIMM (PERC 3/DC)

Cache function

Write-back, write-through, adaptive

read-ahead, non read-ahead, read-

ahead

Multiple logical drives/arrays per

controller

Up to 40 logical drives per controller

Maximum number of PERC 3/DC and

PERC 3/DCL controllers per system

Contact your Dell™ representative.

Online capacity expansion

Yes

Dedicated and pool hot spare

Yes

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