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Specication PERC S140
SATA connectors Discrete on the system board
I/O controller Intel C621 (C620 series chipset) (onboard SATA)
Communication with the system Integrated
Software-based RAID for SATA drives Volume, RAID 1, RAID 0, RAID 5, RAID 10
Pass through SSD support Yes
Table 3. NVMe Specications for PERC S140
Specication PERC S140
NVMe connectors PCIe/slimline
NOTE: Only Dell-compliant NVMe PCIe SSD 2.5 inch Small Form Factor (SFF), or NVMe PCIe SSD Adapters are supported.
Dell-compliant NVMe compatibility Yes
Communication with end devices PCIe
Software-based RAID for NVMe PCIe SSDs Volume, RAID 1, RAID 0, RAID 10
Pass through NVMe PCIe SSD support Yes
The following table provides PERC S140 virtual disk specications:
Table 4. Virtual disk
specications for PERC S140 with SATA conguration
Specication PERC S140
Maximum number of physical disks supported 12
Maximum number of virtual disks supported 16
Minimum virtual disk size 102 MB
Maximum number of physical disks per virtual disk 12
Maximum number of virtual disks per physical disk 16
Maximum number of physical disks in a volume 1
Maximum number of physical disks in a RAID 0 12
Maximum number of physical disks in a RAID 1 2
Maximum number of physical disks in a RAID 5 12
Maximum number of physical disks in a RAID 10 12
Minimum number of physical disks in a volume 1
Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 0 2
Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 1 2
Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 5 3
Minimum number of physical disks in a RAID 10 4
NOTE: The congurations listed in the table above may vary with the hard-drive backplane of your system.
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