Dell R610 manual Boot Order, Storage Overview / Description, Drives, HDDs

Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook

B. Boot Order

Refer to the Whoville BIOS Specification for the most up-to-date lane assignments and scan order

PCIe scan order (from the BIOS HW spec v1.0)

IOH port 1,2 (PCI Express Gen1 x4) – Broadcom BCM5709C Gigabit LOM #1

IOH port 3 (PCI Express Gen1 x4) – Broadcom BCM5709C Gigabit LOM #2

ICH9 port 1-4 (PCI Express Gen1 x4) – Integrated PERC6i or SAS6i on the Center riser IOH port 7/8 (PCI Express Gen2 x8) – Slot 1 on the “center” riser

IOH port 9/10 (PCI Express Gen2 x8) – Slot 2 on the “left” riser

Section 12. Storage

A. Overview / Description

I. 2.5" SAS Backplane Subsystem

The PowerEdge R610 has a single six-drive backplane for 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 SAS 6/iR or PERC 6/i, and a 14-pin power 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. Cabling

Two Mini-SAS cables are used to connect both channels of the integrated storage card to the six-drive backplane. The Mini-SAS A connector connects drives 0 through 3 and the Mini-SAS B connector connects drives 4 and 5 to the storage card.

B. Drives

I. Internal Hard Disk Drives

The 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 any other type of hard drive

2.5HDDs

2.5" Enterprise SATA 7.2K HDs:	160GB, 250GB, and 500GB
2.5" SAS 10K HDs	73GB, 146GB, and 300GB
2.5" entry 10K SAS in Boss Hogg 3.5" HDD carrier
2.5" SAS 15K HDs	73GB, 146GB
2.5" Enterprise SATA SSD	25GB, 50GB, 100GB
2.5" SSD	25GB, 50GB

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