DellDell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 4312 11BStorage12.1 77BOverviewThe PowerEdge R810 supports up to six 2.5‖ hard disk drives: Support for 7,200 rpm, 10,000, and 15,000 rpm 2.5‖ SAS drives Support for 7,200 rpm, 2.5‖ SATA drives Support for SATA 2.5‖ solid state drivesInternal Storage adapters do not allow mixing of drive types within the same container. See Table 11for more information.Table 11. Mixing of Drive TypesSupported in the same RAID volume/container? SAS HDD SATA HDD SATA SSDSAS HDD Yes No YesSATA HDD No Yes NoSATA SSD Yes No YesThe system backplane does allow mixed drive types as follows: Mixed hard-drive configurations of SAS and SATA drives are allowed. In this configuration, twoSAS drives must be installed in hard-drive slots 0 and 1 only. The remaining slots can haveSATA drives installed. Mixed hard-drive configurations of SSD and SAS drives are allowed. In this configuration, twoSSD drives must be installed in hard-drive slots 0 and 1 only. The remaining slots can have SASdrives installed.For the slots that are not occupied by drives, a carrier blank is provided to maintain proper cooling,maintain a uniform appearance to the unit, and provide EMI shielding.The system supports diskless configuration with no integrated SAS storage controller installed in thesystem. The 2.5‖ HDD backplane is still installed in this configuration.12.2 78BPersistent StorageR810 offers two types of persistent storage: managed and unmanaged.