Users Guide

RAID Level Data Availability Read
Performance
Write
Performance
Rebuild
Performance
Minimum Disks
Required
Suggested
Uses
RAID 10 Excellent Very Good Fair Good 2N x X Data intensive
environments
(large records).
RAID 50 Good Very Good Fair Fair N + 2 (N = at
least 4)
Medium sized
transactional or
data intensive
uses.
RAID 6 Excellent Sequential
reads: good.
Transactional
reads: Very good
Fair, unless using
writeback cache
Poor N + 2 (N = at
least two disks)
Critical
information.
Databases and
other read
intensive
transactional
uses.
RAID 60 Excellent Very Good Fair Poor X x (N + 2) (N =
at least 2)
Critical
information.
Medium sized
transactional or
data intensive
uses.
N = Number of physical disks
X = Number of RAID sets
Supported controllers
Supported RAID controllers
The iDRAC interfaces support the following PERC9 controllers:
• PERC H830
• PERC H730P
• PERC H730
• PERC H330
The iDRAC interfaces support the following PERC8 controllers:
• PERC H810
• PERC H710P
• PERC H710
• PERC H310
The iDRAC interfaces support the following modular PERC controllers:
• PERC FD33xS
• PERC FD33xD
NOTE: For more information on configuring and changing the controller mode on the PERC FD33xS and PERC FD33xD
controllers, see the Dell Chassis Management Controller Version 1.2 for PowerEdge FX2/FX2s User's Guide available at
dell.com/support/manuals.
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