Dell PowerEdge T320 Technical Manual

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24 PowerEdge T320 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 a 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 offer high I/O performance fordatabase applications and streaming digital media environments. The internal RAID controllers havea dedicated connection to the system board. The T320 supports the new PERC 8 family ofcontrollers with improved functionality and faster performance.The T320 supports the adapter-type PERC and the new software RAID solution that supports RAID 0,1, 5 and 10 as shown in Table 13. For more information about the latest PERC offerings, seeDell.com/PERC.Table 13. Supported RAID controllersController Description FeaturesRAIDmodessupportedForm factor UsagemodelPERC H810ExternalEight-port, external and6Gbps PCIe RAIDcontrollerIncludes 1GB NV DDR3cache, premiumperformance and featureset, security SED/EKMS,and SSD as cache0, 1, 10, 5,50, 6, 60 Adapter PremiumperformancePERC H710PInternalEight-port, internal 6GbpsPCIe RAID controllerIncludes 1GB NV DDR3cache, premiumperformance and featureset, security SED/EKMS,and SSD as cache0, 1, 10, 5,50, 6, 60 Adapter PremiumperformancePERC H710InternalEight-port, internal 6GbpsPCIe RAID controllerIncludes 512MB NVDDR3 cache, advancedfeature set, securitySED/EKMS0, 1, 10, 5,50, 6, 60 Adapter PerformancePERC H310InternalEight-port, internal 6GbpsPCIe RAIDSupports hot-plug drives,expansion, pass-through0, 1, 10, 5,50 Adapter ValuePERC S110SoftwareRAID3Gbps SATA software RAIDcontroller that supports upto 4 physical disks or 8virtual disksSupports hot-plug SATAdrives (four drivemaximum); noexpansion; MicrosoftWindows only0, 1, 5, 10Systemboard-embeddedSATAEntry-level