Dell PowerVault MD1120 - Manual (Page 9)

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ POWERVAULT™ MD1XXX FAMILY SAS SOLUTION VER A02
PAGE 9 6/16/2008
Primary use General-purpose storage utilizing
cost-effective, high-capacity
drives
High-performance storage for
applications requiring high I/O
or throughput rates
Major features of the PowerVault MD1xxx Family and PERC 5/E and PERC 6/E solution include:
Performance
• Support for 3.0 Gbps SAS physical disks (both 10,000 and 15,000 RPM)
• External cable supports a SAS x4 wide-lane to achieve a total interface bandwidth of up to
12.0 Gbps connection to the host controller
• Host interconnect with the PERC 5/E and PERC 6/E host-based controllers
• RAID levels 0 and 10
• Refer to following link for specific performance information
http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/Storage
Availability
• Support for RAID levels 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60
• Redundant, hot pluggable power supplies with integrated cooling fan modules
• Redundant enclosure management modules (EMMs)
• Hot pluggable physical disks
Scalability/Expandability
• Support for daisy-chaining up to three PowerVault MD1xxx Family expansion enclosures per
PERC 5/E and PERC 6/E connection
• Supports between 2 and 24 physical drives
• Supports 36GB, 73GB, 146GB, 300, and 400 GB 3.5-inch SAS physical disks (MD1000)
• Supports 250GB, 500GB, 750GB, and 1TB 3.5-inch SATA physical disks (MD1000)
• Supports 36GB, 73GB, 146GB GB 2.5-inch SAS physical disks (MD1120)
• Refer to the Dell PowerVault MD1120 System Support Matrix on www.dell.com for the latest
updates
Ease-of-Use
• Common management software with PowerEdge™ servers through Dell OpenManage Server
Administrator
PERC 5/E and PERC 6/E are the RAID controllers used to connect the PowerVault MD1xxx
Family storage enclosures to one or two PowerEdge servers. They support 3 Gbps Serial Attached
SCSI (SAS) as the storage interconnect technology and PCI Express (PCI-E) as the host-based
interconnect technology. The “
E” in PERC 5/E and PERC 6/E stands for “External” because the
PERC controllers supports only physical disks that attach to a server externally.
The PERC 5/E controller offers:
• Intel IOP333 I/O processor based on Intel XScale Microarchitecture
• 256MB of customized DDR2 400MHz, Error-Correcting Code (ECC) cache memory
• 3 Gbps maximum speed for each SAS lane
• Two external x4 (by four) SAS ports, each aggregating 4 SAS lanes for a total bandwidth per
port of 12.0 Gbps
• x8 PCI E host interface for a total bandwidth of 32.0 Gbps
• Up to 72 hours of intelligent, transportable, battery-backed, cache memory
The PERC 6/E controller offers: