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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.