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Specifications: Dell™ PowerEdge™ Expandable RAID Controller 3/Si Installation Guide

PERC 3/Si Controller Technical Specification

Component	Description
RAID support	Volume set, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0/1, and RAID 5
Container (array) support	Up to 64 containers per controller; 64 partitions maximum per container
Device support	Up to 15 SCSI devices per channel Supports RAID array as boot device Integrated SAF-TE 1.0 enclosures
Operating system support	Windows NT 4.0 Server, Small Business Server Edition (Service Pack 6A or higher) Windows NT 4.0 Server, Terminal Server Edition (Service Pack 6A or higher) Windows NT 4.0 Server, Enterprise Server Edition (Service Pack 6A or higher) Windows NT 4.0 Server, BackOffice Edition (Service Pack 6A or higher) Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (Service Pack 6A or higher) Windows 2000 NetWare 4.2 (Support Pack 9 or higher) NetWare 5.0 (Support Pack 5 or higher) NetWare 5.1 (Support Pack 1 or higher) Red Hat Linux 7.0
Remote management	Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 6A or higher) and WIndows 2000

Minimum and Maximum Subsystem Values

RAID Element	Minimum	Maximum	Default
Containers
Total containers per controller	—	64	—
On-disk partition slots available	—	—	30
In-memory partition slots available per controller	—	—	256
Mirror set (RAID 1) limits
Partitions	2	2	2
RAID-5 set limits
Partitions	3	16	—
Chunk size limits	8 KB	64 KB	32 KB
Stripe set (RAID 0) limits
Partitions	1	48	—
Chunk size limits	8 KB	64 KB	32 KB
Stripe set of mirror sets (RAID 0/1) limits
Partitions	2	32	—
Chunk size limits	8 KB	64 KB	32 KB
Volume set limits
Partitions	—	32	—