User Guide

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Overview
The Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H310, H710, H710P, and H810 family of storage controller
cards has the following characteristics:
• Complies with serial-attached SCSI (SAS) 2.0 providing up to 6 Gb/sec throughput.
• Supports Dell-qualified serial-attached SCSI (SAS) hard drives, SATA hard drives, and solid-state drives
(SSDs).
NOTE: Mixing SAS and SATA drives within a virtual disk is not supported. Also, mixing hard drives
and SSDs within a virtual disk is not supported.
NOTE: Mixing disks of different speeds (7,200 rpm, 10,000 rpm, or 15,000 rpm) and bandwidth
(3 Gbps or 6 Gbps) PCIe while maintaining the same drive type (SAS or SATA) and technology
(HDD or SSD) is supported.
• Offers RAID control capabilities which include support for RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60.
NOTE: PERC H310 supports RAID 5 with limited performance and does not support RAID 6 and
RAID 60.
• Provides reliability, high performance, and fault-tolerant disk subsystem management.
• Offers Non-RAID support for direct access to disk drives (PERC H310 only).
NOTE: Operating systems can directly access Non-RAID hard drives. A Non-RAID hard drive is
not fault-tolerant and cannot be recovered if it fails. Only the PERC H310 controller allows
configuration of disk drives as Non-RAID.
The following table compares the hardware configurations for the PERC H310, H710, H710P, and H810
cards.
Table 1. PERC H310, H710, H710P, and H810 Cards Hardware Configurations
Specification H310 H710 H710P H810
RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50,
60
0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
Enclosures Per
Port
Not Applicable Not Applicable Not Applicable Up to four enclosures
Processor Dell Adapter SAS
RAID-on- Chip,
8-port with LSI
2008 chipset
Dell Adapter SAS
RAID-on- Chip,
8-port with LSI
2208 chipset
Dell Adapter SAS
RAID-on- Chip, 8-
port with LSI 2208
chipset
Dell Adapter SAS RAID-
on- Chip, 8-port with
LSI 2208 chipset
Backup Battery
Unit (BBU)
No Yes Yes Yes
Non-Volatile
Cache
Not Applicable Yes Yes Yes
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