Dell M610 manual Storage Hard Drive Overview / Description, Storage Controllers

Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610 Technical Guidebook

SECTION 11. Storage

A. Hard Drive Overview / Description

The PowerEdge M610 supports 2 2.5" hard drives. These drives can be either SATA, SAS or SSD.

Both RAID 0 and RAID 1 are supported as long as a RAID card is included.

Hard Disk Drive Carriers

Hard drives must use the new Dell drive carrier for 2.5" drives.

Empty Drive Bays

For the slots that are not occupied by drives, a carrier blank is provided to maintain proper cooling, maintain a uniform appearance to the unit, and provide EMI shielding.

Diskless Configuration Support

The system supports diskless configuration with no storage controller installed in the system.

Hard Drive LED Indicators

Each disk drive carrier has two LED indicators visible from the front of the system. One is a green LED for disk activity and the other is a bi-color (green/amber) LED for status information. The activity LED is driven by the disk drive during normal operation. The bi-color LED is controlled by the SEP device on the backplane. Both LEDs are used to indicate certain conditions under direction of a storage controller.

B. Storage Controllers

The PowerEdge M610 will support a variety of RAID cards

•A SATA controller comes standard and supports both the SATA drives and some SSD.

•CERC6 - The M610 supports this card with 128MB of RAID cache.

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