DELL RAID Controller Perc H730 with Battery

Description

The DELL RAID Controller Perc H730 with Battery, with eight internal ports, features dual PowerPC processor cores and a 72-bit DDR3 interface that manages 1 GB of non-volatile cache. Deploy the PERC H730 in HDD-based server environments for a significant performance boost.

Provided Solution
Cost-effective and high-performance RAID and non-RAID (pass-through) solution for high-density servers (1U or 2U) with flexible use of SATA and SAS hard drives, SSDs, and pass-through drive configurations.

Physical Dimensions
167.6 mm (6.6 in) x 64.4 mm (2.5 in) (low-profile MD2)

Connectors
Two internal HD Mini-SAS SFF8643

Device Support
Up to 255 (SAS, SATA)

Host Bus Type
8-lane, PCI Express 3.0 compliant

Data Transfer Rates
Up to 12 Gbps per port

SAS Controller
LSI SAS 3108 1200 Mbps PowerPC 476 dual-core 12 Gbps ROC

Cache
1 GB 1333 MB/s DDR3 SDRAM

Key RAID and Data Protection Features
RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, 6
RAID covers 10, 50, 60
non-RAID (pass-through)
Online Capability Enhancement (OFFICE)
Online RAID Level Migration (RLM)
Automatic Resume after Power Loss during Array Rebuild/RLM
Consistency Check for Source Data Integrity
Physical Disk Power Management (Dimmer Switch™)
4K Native Sector Support
Workload Profiles
TRIM/UNMAP Support for SAS/SATA SSDs
NVRAM Erase Function – Protects sensitive data after the card is decommissioned. SED Drive Support
Load Balancing
Fast Initialization for Quick Array Setup
Configurable Stripe Size up to 1 MB
SSD Support
Patrol Read for Media Scanning and Recovery
DF-Compliant Configuration on Disk (COD)
S.M.A.R.T. Support
Global and dedicated hot spares with hot spare failover: automatic rebuild, enclosure affinity,
SATA failover

RAID Management
CTRL-R
Dell OpenManage Storage Services
Additional Management:
UEFI (HII)
jam

Operating Temperature
Maximum ambient temperature: 60°C

Operating Voltage
+3.3V

Additional SSD optimization
Dell FastPath™ firmware feature: delivers high I/O performance on SSDs

Operating Systems
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R1 and R2
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
Virtualization options:
VMware® ESXi 5.1
VMware 6.0