Dell PowerEdge M520 Technical Manual

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22 PowerEdge M520 Technical GuideSupported RAID controllersThe newest line of PowerEdge RAID Controllers (PERCs) offers high I/O performance for a variety ofuses, including database applications and streaming digital media environments. The internal RAIDcontrollers have a dedicated connection to the system board.PERC H710PThe PERC H710P is an eight-port, internal, 6Gb/s PCIe RAID controller (mini form factor) with1GB DDR3 non-volatile (NV) cache.PERC H710The PERC H710 is an eight-port, internal, 6Gb/s PCIe RAID controller (mini form factor) with512MB DDR3 NV cache.PERC H310The PERC H310 is an eight-port, internal, 6Gb/s PCIe RAID controller (mini form factor) that is alow-cost, entry-level RAID solution.For more information about the latest PERC offerings, see Dell.com/PERC.RAID controller feature supportTable 12 lists the features supported by the RAID controller options on the M520.Table 12. RAID controller feature supportFeature PERC optionS110 H310 H710 H710PSoftware RAID stack iMR firmware stack MR firmware stack  SSD support    SATA backplane SAS backplane   SATA hard drives  1 1 1SAS hard drives   Un-configured hard drive support(non-RAID)  RAID 0    RAID 1    DDR3 cache (512MB) DDR3 cache (1GB) Non-volatile cache option  Microsoft Windows support    Linux support   Virtualization support   