Dell PowerEdge User Manual

Overview
The Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) S140 is a Software RAID solution for the Dell PowerEdge systems. The S140 controller
supports up to 16 NVMe PCIe SSDs, SATA SSDs, SATA HDDs depending on your system backplane conguration.
Topics:
• PERC S140 specications
• Supported operating systems
• Supported PowerEdge systems
• Supported physical disks
• Management applications for the PERC S140
PERC S140 specications
The following table provides PERC S140 specications for SATA and NVMe PCIe SSDs:
Table 1.
Specications for PERC S140
Specication PERC S140
SATA SSD technology Yes
NVMe support Yes
SAS connectors No
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
Support for internal tape drive No
Support for global hot spare Yes
Support for 512 native and 512e drives Yes
Support for 4Kn native drives No
Maximum number of global hot spares Varies with the number of free disks in the system.
Maximum number of physical disk supported (SATA + NVMe) 16
Table 2. SATA Specications for PERC S140
Specication PERC S140
Dell-compliant SATA compatibility Yes
Communication with the end devices SATA links
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Dell PowerEdge Specifications

General

Brand	Dell
Model	PowerEdge
Category	Server
Language	English