Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Manual

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DellDell PowerEdge M610x Technical Guide 2811.7 RAID CardsThe M610x will support a variety of RAID cards.11.7.1 SATA RepeaterThe PE M610x internal SATA Repeater HBA is an expansion card that plugs into the dedicated storagecontroller slot. It is connected to the ICH9 SATA port via that slot for support of one SATA 2.5‖ harddrive. The SATA drives are NOT hot pluggable.11.7.2 PERC6/iFor customers who want a hardware RAID solution, the PERC6i is an option, as a customer kit. ThePERC6i uses the LSI 1078 ROC (RAID on Chip) processor with a PCI Express host interface and DDR2memory. A battery is available with this card. For details of this card, see the PERC6 HardwareProduct Specification11.7.3 H200The M610x supports the latest SAS solution called H200.11.7.4 H700 and H800The M610x supports the latest PERC solutions: the H700 and H800. Details of the PERC H700M can befound in the PERC H700 and H800 Technical Guidebook. Both offer a battery-backed cache.11.8 LED IndicatorsEach disk drive carrier has two LED indicators visible from the front of the system. One is a green LEDfor disk activity and the other is a bicolor (Green/Amber) LED for status information. The activityLED is driven by the disk drive during normal operation. The bicolor LED is controlled by the SEPdevice on the backplane. Both LEDs are used to indicate certain conditions under direction of astorage controller.11.9 Optical DrivesOptical drives are optional in all M610x systems and connect to the blade through the front USBinterface. The following internal slim-line drives are available on M610x: DVD-ROM and DVD+RW.PATA (IDE) optical drives are not supported.