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RAID Levels Supported By The PERC 5/E And PERC 6 Controllers
Table 44. RAID Levels Supported by the PERC 5/E and PERC 6/ Controllers
RAID Level PERC 5/E PERC 5/I PERC 6/E PERC 6/I PERC 6/I
Modular
Concatenation No No No No No
RAID 0 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RAID 1 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RAID 5 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RAID 10 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RAID 50 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RAID 6 No No Yes Yes Yes
RAID 60 No No Yes Yes Yes
Read, Write, And Cache Policy Supported By The PERC 5/E And PERC 6
Controllers
Table 45. Read, Write, and Cache Policy Supported by the PERC 5/E and PERC 6/ Controllers
Read, Write,
and Cache
Policy
PERC 5/E PERC 5/I PERC 6/E PERC 6/I PERC 6/I
Modular
Cache settings Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Read Policy Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Read Ahead
(Enabled)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Adaptive Read
Ahead
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
No Read Ahead
(Disabled)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Write Policy Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Write Back
(Enabled)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Write Through
(Disabled)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Force Write
Back (Enabled
Always)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
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