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PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide
Add-in SAS/SATA RAID card, RAID 1
+ RAID 1 (S300)
Add-in SAS/SATA RAID card, RAID 1
+ RAID 1 (SAS 6/iR, PERC 6/i,
H200, or H700)
Additional restrictions for RAID configurations are as follows:
• Hard drives must be all 3.5‖ HDD or 2.5‖ HDD
• Hard drives must be all SAS, all SATA, or all SSD; hard drives cannot be mixed
• SSD support requires PERC 6/I, H200, or H700; PERC S100, SAS 6i/R, and PERC S300 do not
support SSD
PERC S100 and PERC S300 do not support the following:
• Microsoft
®
Hyper-V™ server 2008 x64 (download version)
• Microsoft Windows Server
®
2008 x64 (Hyper-V™ role enabled)
• Microsoft
Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64 (Hyper-V™ role enabled)
• Microsoft
Windows Server 2008 R2 (Microsoft
Windows
®
7 includes SP2 bits) x64
(Hyper-V role enabled)
• Linux
®
operating systems or VMware
®
virtualization software
12.3 Storage Controllers
12.3.1 SAS 6/iR
The T310 internal SAS 6/iR HBA is an expansion card that installs into the dedicated internal storage
slot. It incorporates two four-channel SAS IOCs for connection to SAS or SATA hard disk drives.
12.3.2 PERC 6/i
The PERC 6/i uses the LSI 1078 ROC (RAID on Chip) processor with a PCI Express host interface and
DDR2 memory, and it installs into the dedicated internal storage slot. A battery is also available for
backup.
12.3.3 PERC H200
The H200 SAS HBA is an expansion card that installs into the dedicated internal storage slot. It
incorporates two four-channel 6 Gb/s SAS IOCs for connection to SAS hard disk drives.
12.3.4 PERC H700
The PERC H700 card has its own processor with a PCI Express Gen2 host interface and DDR2 memory
and installs into the dedicated internal storage slot. A battery is also available for backup. It
supports the internal 6 Gb/s backplane interface for internal storage options (SAS, SATA, or SSD HDD).
The PowerEdge T310 supports both 512MB and 1GB cache options on the internal H700.