A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS  VER A00 
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Table 2: PERC 5/E controller features 
Feature  Comment 
SAS Technology 
3Gbps 
Host Bus Interface 
x8 PCI Express 
Internal connectors 
N/A 
External Connectors 
2 
RAID Levels Supported 
0, 1, 5, 10, 50 
Cache Size (DIMM) 
256MB DDR2 
Write Cache Options 
Write-Through, Write-Back 
Read Cache Options 
Read-Ahead, No Read Ahead 
BBU Battery Life 
Up to 72 hours 
Maximum Number of Virtual 
Disks/Controller 
64 
Maximum Number of 
Physical Drives/Virtual Disk 
32 
Form Factor 
Full Height, Half-Length PCI 
Adapter card 
I/O Processor (IOP)  Intel IOP333