54 PERC 3/ SC Feat uresw w w . d e l l . c o m | s u p p o r t . d e l l . c o mHardware RequirementsPERC 3/SC has one SCSI) channel that supports 160M and Wide SCSI atdata transfer rates up to 160 MB/s. The SCSI channel supports up to 15Wide devices or up to seven narrow devices.PERC 3/SC can be installed in a Dell™ PowerEdge™ computer with amotherboard that has 5 V, 32- or 64-bit PCI expansion slots. The computershould have an Intel ® Pentium ® II or higher central processing unit (CPU),a diskette drive, a color monitor and video graphics adapter (VGA) card, anda keyboard. A mouse is recommended.Configuration FeaturesTable 4-1 lists the configuration features for the PERC 3/SC controller.Ta b l e 4 - 1 . C o n f i g u r a t i o n Fe a t u r e sSpecification FeatureRAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50.SCSI channels 1Maximum number of drives perchannel15Array interface to host PCI 2.2Drive interface Wide 160MCache memory size 32 MBCache function Write-back, write-through, adaptiveread-ahead, non-read-ahead, read-aheadMultiple logical drives/arrays percontrollerUp to 40 logical drives per controllerMaximum number of PERC 3/SCcontroller per systemContact your Dell representative.Online capacity expansion YesDedicated and pool hot spare YesFlashable firmware YesHot swap devices supported Yes
