Dell POWEREDGE R710 Series Technical Manualbook

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook36sectiOn 12. stORaGea. Overview / DescriptionThe PowerEdge R710 supports three different backplanes to support different hard drive configurations:six 3.5" hard drives, four 3.5" hard drives, or eight 2.5" hard drives.On each backplane are two LED indicators per drive slot with one or two mini-SAS x4 cable connectorsfor connecting the backplane to the integrated SAS 6/iR or PERC 6i, and a power connector to connectto the planar. Both Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives are supported. ForSAS/SATA mixing, two SAS drives are supported with the 3.5" backplane.b. DrivesI. Internal Hard Disk drivesThe PowerEdge R710 supports up to eight 2.5" or six 3.5" hard disk drives.• Support for 15,000 rpm 3.5" SAS drives• Support for 10,000 and 15,000 rpm 2.5" SAS drives• Support for 7,200 rpm 3.5" Near Line SAS drives• Support for 7,200 rpm 3.5" and 2.5" Enterprise SATA drives• Support for 7,200 rpm 3.5" and 2.5" SATAu drives• For SAS/SATA mixing, two SAS and up to six SATA drives are possible• A pair of SAS drives must be installed in slots 0 and 1• One mixed 2.5" and 3.5" hard drive configuration is allowed:• A pair of 2.5" 10k rpm SAS drives must be installed with an adapter in a 3.5" hard drivecarrier in drive slots 0 and 1• The remaining hard drives must be 3.5" hard drives and must be either all SAS or allSATA• Support for 25 and 50GB 2.5" solid state drives at RTS (additional solid state drive support isPost RTS)• SSDs require the PERC 6/i Integrated storage controller and cannot be mixed with any othertype 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 3.5" HDD carrier2.5" SAS 15K HDs 73GB and 146GB2.5" Enterprise SATA SSD 25GB, 50GB, and 100GB2.5" SSD 25GB and 50GB3.5 HDDsSupport for 3.5" Enterprise SATA 7.2K: 160GB, 250GB, 500GB, 750GB, and1,000GBSupport for 3.5" Enterprise SATAu 7.2K: 500GB SATAu, 750GB SATAu, and1 ,000GB SATAuSupport for 3.5" Green Enterprise SATA 5.4K 1,000GBSupport for 3.5" Near Line SAS 7.2K 500GB, 750GB, and 1,000GBSupport for 3.5" SAS 15K HDs: 146GB, 300GB, and 450GBTable: R710 supported HDD matrix