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Dell PERC 3/DC U160 SCSI PCI-X 128MB RAID Controller
The Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 3 (PERC 3) PCI-X card is a high-performance, intelligent peripheral component interconnect (PCI)-to-SCSI host adapter with RAID control capabilities. The RAID controller provides system availability, high performance, and fault-tolerant disk subsystem management and is an ideal RAID solution with Dell PowerEdge systems. It offers a cost-effective way to implement RAID in a server.
Throughput on each SCSI channel can be as high as 160 MB/sec. PERC 3 supports both an LVD SCSI bus and a single-ended SCSI bus. PERC 3 is a high-performance, intelligent PCI-to-SCSI host adapter with RAID control capabilities. With LVD, you can use cables up to 12 meters long. PERC 3 requires no special motherboard PCI expansion slot.
Dell Part Number(s): 9M912
Technical Specifications: Feature PERC 3/DC
- RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50
- SCSI channels 2
- Array interface to host PCI Rev 2.2
- Storage interface Wide 160M
- Cache memory size 128 MB DIMM for PERC 3/DC
- Cache function Write-back, write-through, adaptive read-ahead, non-read-ahead, read-ahead
- Number of logical drives and arrays supported Up to 40 logical drives and 32 arrays per controller
- Maximum logical drive size supported 2 TB for all RAID levels (0, 1, 5, 10, and 50)
- Online capacity expansion Yes
- Hot spares Yes
- Flashable firmware 2 MB
- Hot swap devices supported Yes
- Non-disk devices supported NOTE: PERC 3 does not support any non-disk devices except backplanes. No
- Mixed capacity hard drives Yes
- Number of 16-bit internal connectors Two
- Number of 16-bit internal connectors Two
- Cluster support PERC 3/DC only
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