Dell External OEMR R810 Technical Manual

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DellDell PowerEdge R810 Technical Guide 46The Internal SD Module is dedicated for an SD Flash Card with embedded Hypervisor forvirtualization. The SD Flash Card contains a bootable OS image for virtualized platforms. Themicrocontroller has a USB 2.0 interface to the control panel (via 1x12 cable) and SD card controllerthat interfaces the SD Flash Cards. When two SD Flash Cards are used, the controller can use the twoflash cards as redundant configuration. If the system detects that one SD card has failed, the systemwill flag that failure and continue operating using the second SD card.12.2.3 124BFlash BIOS memoryA flash EEPROM resides on the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Bus for BIOS and configurationstorage. A 4 MB device is utilized for this function. The flash memory permits the BIOS to beupgraded in the field. The flash BIOS may be write-protected by software.12.3 79BBackplaneThe PowerEdge R810 supports six 2.5‖ hard drives with the 6Gb/s SAS backplane.On the backplane are two LED indicators per drive slot with two mini-SAS x4 cable connectors forconnecting the backplane to the integrated PERC/SAS card and a power connector that connectsfrom backplane to the CPU planar.Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) & SATA hard drives and SATA SSD drives are supported.12.4 80BSupported DrivesR810 and available controllers will support both 3GB and 6GB drives. Only 6GB drives will beavailable from the factory where both throughputs are supported.Table 12. Supported Drives for R810Form Factor Capacity Speed Type Throughput2.5‖ 50GB n/a SATA SSD 3GB2.5‖ 10GB n/a SATA SSD 3GB2.5‖ 73GB 15k SAS HDD 3GB/6GB2.5‖ 146GB 15k SAS HDD 3GB/6GB2.5‖ 146GB 10k SAS HDD 3GB/6GB2.5‖ 300GB 10k SAS HDD 3GB/6GB2.5‖ 600GB 10k SAS HDD 6GB2.5‖ 160GB 7.2k SATA HDD 3GB2.5‖ 500GB 7.2k NearlineSAS HDD6GB12.5 81BRAID ConfigurationsThe PowerEdge R810 supports the RAID configurations shown in the following tables.