Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook36b. boot OrderRefer to the Whoville BIOS Specification for the most up-to-date lane assignments and scan orderPCIe scan order (from the BIOS HW spec v1.0)IOH port 1,2 (PCI Express Gen1 x4) – Broadcom BCM5709C Gigabit LOM #1IOH port 3 (PCI Express Gen1 x4) – Broadcom BCM5709C Gigabit LOM #2ICH9 port 1-4 (PCI Express Gen1 x4) – Integrated PERC6i or SAS6i on the Center riserIOH port 7/8 (PCI Express Gen2 x8) – Slot 1 on the “center” riserIOH port 9/10 (PCI Express Gen2 x8) – Slot 2 on the “left” risersectiOn 12. stORaGea. Overview / DescriptionI. 2.5" SAS Backplane SubsystemThe PowerEdge R610 has a single six-drive backplane for 2.5" drives. There are six hot-swap capableSerial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) slots with two LED indicators per slot, two Mini-SAScable connectors for connecting the backplane to the integrated SAS 6/iR or PERC 6/i, and a 14-pinpower connector. For SATA/SAS mixing, up to four SATA drives are supported with the 2.5" backplane.In this configuration, one pair of drives will be SAS and the remaining drives will be SATA.II. CablingTwo Mini-SAS cables are used to connect both channels of the integrated storage card to the six-drivebackplane. The Mini-SAS A connector connects drives 0 through 3 and the Mini-SAS B connectorconnects drives 4 and 5 to the storage card.b. DrivesI. Internal Hard Disk DrivesThe PowerEdge R610 system supports up to six 2.5" hard disk drives.• Support for 10,000 and 15,000 rpm SAS drives• Support for 7,200 rpm Enterprise SATA and SATAu drives• Hard drives must use the Hannibal drive carrier• Up to six SAS or up to six SATA drives are supported• For SAS/SATA mixing, two SAS and up to four SATA drives are possible• A pair of SAS drives must be installed in slots 0 and 1• Support for Solid State Drives (SSD)• SSDs require the PERC 6/i Integrated storage controller and cannot be mixed with anyother type of hard drive2.5 HDDs2.5" Enterprise SATA 7.2K HDs: 160GB, 250GB, and 500GB2.5" SAS 10K HDs 73GB, 146GB, and 300GB2.5" entry 10K SAS in Boss Hogg 3.5" HDD carrier2.5" SAS 15K HDs 73GB, 146GB2.5" Enterprise SATA SSD 25GB, 50GB, 100GB2.5" SSD 25GB, 50GB