Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 3 User's Manual
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Brand: Dell
Category: Computer Hardware
Type: Operation & user’s manual
Model: Dell DC, 3 , Dell DCL and 3 , Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 3 , Dell QC, 3 , Dell SC PERC 3
Pages: 254 (1.33 Mb)
8 Contents
Parity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Disk Rebuilds
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Hot Swap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SCSI Drive States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Logical Drive States
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Enclosure Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
3 RAID Levels
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Selecting a RAID Level
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
RAID 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
RAID 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
RAID 5
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
RAID 10
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
RAID 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
4 PERC 3/SC Features
Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Configuration Features
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SMART Technology
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Configuration on Disk Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Hardware Architecture Features
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Array Performance Features
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
PERC 3/SC Fault Tolerance Features
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Software Utilities
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Operating System Software Drivers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58