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BIOS Terminology

Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator Storage Management User's Guide

  BIOS Terms and the PERC 3/SC, 3/DCL, 3/DC, 3/QC, 4/SC, 4/DC, 4e/DC, 4/Di, and CERC ATA100/4ch Controllers

  BIOS Terms and the PERC 3/Si, 3/Di, CERC SATA1.5/6ch, and CERC SATA1.5/2s Controllers

The terminology used by Storage Management can be different from the terminology used in the controller BIOS. The following sections show some of these differences.

BIOS Terms and the PERC 3/SC, 3/DCL, 3/DC, 3/QC, 4/SC, 4/DC, 4e/DC, 4/Di, and CERC ATA100/4ch Controllers

Naming convention differences between Storage Management and PERC BIOS Configuration Utility

Storage Management

PERC BIOS Configuration Utility for the 3/SC, 3/DCL, 3/DC, 3/QC, 4/SC, 4/DC, 4e/DC, 4/Di, and CERC ATA100/4ch Controllers

Controller

Adapter

Virtual Disk

Logical Drive

Array Disk

Physical Drive

Reconfigure Virtual Disk

Reconstruct

BIOS Terms and the PERC 3/Si, 3/Di, CERC SATA1.5/6ch, and CERC SATA1.5/2s Controllers

Naming convention differences between Storage Management and PERC BIOS Container Configuration Utility (CCU)

Storage Management

PERC BIOS CCU for the 3/Si, 3/Di, CERC SATA1.5/6ch, and CERC SATA1.5/2s Controllers

Virtual Disk

Container

Array Disk

Drive

Check Consistency

Scrub

Stripe Size

Chunk Size

Concatenation

Volume

Concatenation of RAID 1

Volume

RAID 0

RAID-0 (Stripe)

RAID 1

RAID-1 (Mirror)

Diagnostics

Verify

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