Dell PowerEdge R320 Technical Manual

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22 PowerEdge R320 Technical GuideStorage controllersDell provides highly capable RAID options for you to ensure that your data remains safe. Dell’s RAIDcontroller options offer impressive performance improvements, including the following features: FastPath™ I/O: This feature can help accelerate performance when operating on SSDs. Split mirror: This function allows you to break mirrored disk connection in order to quicklyreplace a drive. Physical disk power management (Dimmer Switch™): This feature allows for power control ofspare or idle drives, which can save energy and operating expenses.Supported RAID controllersThe newest line of PERC (PowerEdge RAID Controller) cards offers high I/O performance fordatabase applications and streaming digital media environments. The internal RAID controllers havea dedicated connection to the system board. The R320 supports the new PERC 8 family ofcontrollers with improved functionality and faster performance.The default PERC for the R320 is a mini-type PERC. The R320 also supports the new software RAIDsolution that supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10. The R320 supports the PERC cards listed in Table 12. Formore information about the latest PERC offerings, see Dell.com/PERC.Table 12. Supported RAID controllersController Description FeaturesRAIDmodessupportedForm factor UsagemodelPERC H810External8-port, external and 6Gb/sPCIe RAID controllerIncludes 1GB NV DDR3cache, premiumperformance and featureset, security SED/EKMS,and SSD as cache0, 1, 10, 5,50, 6, 60 Adapter PremiumperformancePERC H710Internal8-port, internal 6Gb/s PCIeRAID controllerIncludes 512MB NVDDR3 cache, advancedfeature set, securitySED/EKMS0, 1, 10, 5,50, 6, 60Integratedmini-type PerformancePERC H310Internal8-port, internal 6Gb/s PCIeRAIDSupports hot-plugdrives, expansion, pass-through0, 1, 10, 5,50Integratedmini-type ValuePERC S110SoftwareRAID3Gb/s SATA software RAIDcontroller that supports upto 4 physical disks or 8virtual disksSupports up to fourhot-plug SATA drives, noexpansion, MicrosoftWindows only0, 1, 5, 10Systemboard-embeddedSATAEntry-level