Dell R210 II manual Storage, Supported Hard Drives, Factory RAID Configurations

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12.1 Overview

The PowerEdge R210 II supports the following hard drive configurations:

∙2 x 3.5‖ cabled SATA drives using the motherboard SATA connector

∙2 x 3.5‖ cabled SAS, nearline SAS, or SATA drives using an add-on storage controller

∙4 x 2.5‖ SSD or SAS drives using an add-on storage controller (available Q2 2011)

The hard-drive configuration must be selected at point of purchase and is not an upgrade option.

12.2 Hard Drives

Table 14 lists the supported hard drives for the PowerEdge R210 II. For the latest information on supported hard drives, visit Dell.com.

	Table 14.		Supported Hard Drives
Form Factor		Capacity		Speed	Type
3.5‖		250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB		7.2K	SATA
3.5‖		500GB, 1TB, 2TB		7.2K	NL SAS
3.5‖		146GB, 300GB, 450GB, 600GB		15K	SAS
2.5‖1		100GB, 200GB		N/A	SATA SSD
2.5‖		146GB, 300GB, 600GB, 900GB		10K	SAS

12.5‖ drives available Q2 2011.

12.3 RAID Configurations

Table 15 details the factory RAID configurations for the PowerEdge R210 II.

Table 15. Factory RAID Configurations

Non-Mixed Drives, all SATA, all SSD, or all SAS

Config	Configurations		Description	Min HDD	Max
Type	#	Name			HDD

SATA—No	1	MSTCBL	On-board SATA Controller	1	2
RAID
SATA RAID	2	MSTR0CBL	Embedded SATA SW RAID (PERC S100)—RAID 0	2	2
	3	MSTR1CBL	Embedded SATA SW RAID (PERC S100)—RAID 1	2	2
SAS/SATA	4	ASSR0CBL	Add-in SAS/SATA RAID card, RAID 0 (PERC S300)	2	2
RAID			with 2 hard drives

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