Chapter 1: Overview
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PERC S150 specifications
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Supported operating systems
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Supported PowerEdge systems
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Supported physical disks
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Management applications for the PERC S150
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Chapter 2: Physical Disks
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Physical disk features
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Physical disk roaming
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Physical disk hot-swapping
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Physical disk power management
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Physical disk failure detection
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Mirror rebuilding
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Fault tolerance
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Self-Monitoring And Reporting Technology
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Native Command Queuing
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NVMe PCIe SSD support
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Physical disk write cache policy for SATA drives
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Linux RAID
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Chapter 3: Virtual Disks
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Virtual disk features
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TRIM for SATA SSDs
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Disk initialization
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Background Array Scan
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Checkpointing
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Consistency check
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Background initialization
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Automatic virtual disk rebuild
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Virtual disk cache policies
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Virtual disk migration
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Migrating a virtual disk
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Expanding virtual disk capacity
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Chapter 4: Cabling the drives for the S150
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Disk connectivity for AHCI devices
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Chapter 5: BIOS Configuration Utility
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Entering the BIOS configuration utility
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Exiting the BIOS Configuration Utility
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Initializing the physical disks
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Converting to RAID disks
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Converting to Non-RAID disks
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