Dell H310 Server User Manual


 
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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 speed (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: RAID 6 and RAID 60 are not supported by PERC H310.
Supports a PCIe 2.0 x8 host interface.
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.