Users Guide
Overview
The Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) S130 is an economical RAID solution for the Dell PowerEdge systems. The S130
controller supports up to ten SATA HDDs or SATA SSDs depending on your system backplane configuration.
Topics:
• PERC S130 specifications
• Supported operating systems
• Supported PowerEdge systems
• Supported physical disks
• Management applications for the PERC S130
PERC S130 specifications
The following table provides PERC S130 specifications:
Table 1. Specifications for PERC S130
Specification PERC S130
SATA SSD technology Yes
I/O controller Intel X99 chipset
Intel C236 chipset
NOTE: The Intel C236 chipset is supported only on
PowerEdge R330, R230, T330, and T130 systems.
Communication with the system Integrated
Communication with the end devices SATA links
SAS connectors No
SATA connectors Discrete on the system board
Dell-compliant SATA compatibility Yes
Dell-compliant SAS compatibility No
Direct-connected end devices Dell-compliant HDDs and SSDs
SMART error support through management applications Yes
Backplane supported systems Yes
Software-based RAID
Windows RAID: Volume, RAID 1, RAID 0, RAID 5, RAID 10
Linux RAID: RAID 1
NOTE: Non-boot virtual disks of any supported RAID level by
the Linux OS installed on RAID-1 disk can also be created using
native Linux RAID utilities.
Support for internal tape drive Yes
Support for global hot spare Yes
Support for 512 native and 512e drives Yes
Support for 4Kn native drives Yes
Maximum number of global hot spares Varies with the number of free disks in the system.
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