Dell PowerEdge M620 Technical Manual

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24 PowerEdge M620 Technical Guideresources or capturing DRAM. Also, Express Flash drives use a standardized, 2.5-inch hot-plug formfactor, which allows a common management process for all drives.The PowerEdge M620 has an option to support up to two Express Flash PCIe SSD drives with thePCIe SSD backplane configuration. This backplane configuration may be selected at purchase, butmay not be upgraded later.Storage controllersDell provides highly capable RAID options for you to ensure that your data remains safe. Dell’s RAIDcontroller options offer impressive performance improvements.Supported 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) with 1GBDDR3 non-volatile (NV) cache.PERC H710The PERC H710 is an eight-port, internal, 6Gb/s PCIe RAID controller (mini form factor) with 512MBDDR3 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.PERC S110The PERC S110 is a 3Gb/s SATA software RAID controller that is a low-cost, entry-level RAIDsolution.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 M620.Table 12. RAID controller feature supportFeaturePERC optionS110 H310 H710 H710PSoftware RAID stack iMR firmware stack MR firmware stack  SSD support    SATA backplane SAS backplane   SATA hard drives  1 1 1