1OverviewThe Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H310, H710, H710P, and H810 family of storage controller cards has thefollowing 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 andSSDs 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 6Gbps) PCIe while maintaining the same drive type (SAS or SATA) and technology (HDD or SSD) issupported.• 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 diskdrives 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 ConfigurationsSpecification H310 H710 H710P H810RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60Enclosures Per Port Not Applicable Not Applicable Not Applicable Up to four enclosuresProcessor Dell Adapter SASRAID-on- Chip, 8-port with LSI 2008chipsetDell Adapter SASRAID-on- Chip, 8-port with LSI 2008chipsetDell Adapter SAS RAID-on- Chip, 8-port withLSI 2008 chipsetDell Adapter SAS RAID-on- Chip, 8-port with LSI2008 chipsetBackup Battery Unit(BBU)No Yes Yes YesNon-Volatile Cache Not Applicable Yes Yes YesCache Memory Not Applicable 512 MB DDR3 800Mhz1 GB DDR3 1333 Mhz 1 GB DDR3 1333 MhzCache Function Not Applicable Write Back, WriteThrough, AdaptiveRead Ahead, NoRead Ahead, ReadAheadWrite Back, WriteThrough, AdaptiveRead Ahead, No ReadAhead, Read AheadWrite Back, WriteThrough, Adaptive ReadAhead, No Read Ahead,Read Ahead9