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Specifications

Dell™ PowerEdge™ Expandable RAID Controller 3/Di INSTALLATION GUIDE

  PERC 3/Di Controller Technical Specification

  Minimum and Maximum Subsystem Values



PERC 3/Di Controller Technical Specification

Component

Description

RAID support

Volume set, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0/1, and RAID 5

Container (array) support

Up to 64 containers per controller; 64 partitions maximum per container

Device support

  • Up to 15 SCSI devices per channel
  • Supports RAID container as boot device
  • Integrated SAF-TE 1.0 enclosures

Operating system support

  • Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 6A or higher)
  • Windows 2000
  • NetWare 5.0 (Support Pack 6A or higher)
  • NetWare 5.1 (Support Pack 3 or higher)
  • NetWare 6.0
  • Red Hat Linux

Remote management

Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 6A or higher) and Windows 2000


Minimum and Maximum Subsystem Values

RAID Element

Minimum

Maximum

Default

Containers

Total containers per controller

64

On-disk partition slots available

30

In-memory partition slots available per controller

256

Mirror set (RAID 1) limits

Partitions

2

2

2

RAID-5 set limits

Partitions

3

16

Chunk size limits

8 KB

64 KB

32 KB

Stripe set (RAID 0) limits

Partitions

1

48

Chunk size limits

8 KB

64 KB

32 KB

Stripe set of mirror sets (RAID 0/1) limits

Partitions

2

48

Chunk size limits

8 KB

64 KB

32 KB

Volume set limits

Partitions

1

32

Volume of mirror sets limits

Partitions

2

48

Volume of stripe sets limits

Partitions

2


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