Dell External OEMR XL R610 Technical Manual

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DellPowerEdge R610 Technical Guide 3812 Storage12.1 OverviewThe PowerEdge R610 has a single six-drive backplane that supports 2.5‖ drives. There are six hot-swap capable Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) slots with two LED indicators per slot,two Mini-SAS cable connectors for connecting the backplane to the integrated storage controller, anda 14-pin power connector. Mixing SAS and SATA drives is supported.12.2 Internal Hard Disk DrivesThe R610 system supports up to six 2.5‖ hard disk drives. See Table 10 for information on supportedhard drives. For the most up-to-date information on supported hard drives, visit Dell.com.Table 10. Supported Hard DrivesForm Factor Capacity Speed Type2.5‖ 80GB, 160GB, 250GB, 500GB 7.2K SATA2.5‖ 500GB, 1TB 7.2K NL SAS2.5‖ 146GB, 300GB, 600GB 10K SAS2.5‖ 73GB, 146GB 15K SAS2.5‖ 50GB, 100GB N/A SATA SSD2.5‖ 149GB N/A SAS SSDThe following additional guidelines apply for hard-drive configurations: Hard drives require the 2.5‖ hard-drive carrier Up to six SAS or up to six SATA drives are supported For SAS and SATA mixing:o Two SAS and up to four SATA drives are allowedo Two SAS hard drives must be installed in slots 0 and 1 Limited SAS and SSD mixing is supported SSDs require the PERC 6/i or PERC H700 integrated storage controller card and cannot bemixed with any other type of hard drive12.2.1 Hard Disk Drive CarriersHard drives must use the Dell 2.5‖ drive carrier. See Figure 8.