Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook
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D. storage controllers
I. SAS 6/iR
The PowerEdge R610 internal SAS 6/iR HBA is an expansion card that plugs into a dedicated PCI Express
x8 slot (only four lanes wired). It incorporates two four-channel SAS IOCs for connection to SAS/SATA
hard disk drives. It is designed in a form factor that allows the same card to be used in R610 and T610
.
II. PERC 6i
For customers who want a hardware RAID solution, the PERC 6i is an option. The PERC 6i uses the LSI
1078 ROC (RAID on Chip) processor with a PCI Express host interface and DDR2 memory. A battery is
also available for backup.
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PERC SAS/SATA
PERC 6/i
Integrated
Internal
Backplane
Storage
(HDD, SSD)
Yes, Max 1 Storage
slot x8 No x4 int
x4 int
0, 1, 5,
6, 10,
50,
and 60
Yes
PERC 6/E
Adapter
External
SAS/SATA
Storage
Yes, Max 1
(MD1000
Pompano
& MD1020
Ridgeback)
PCIe
slot x8 Yes x4 ext
x4 ext
0, 1, 5,
6, 10,
50,
and 60
TBBU
PERC 5/E
Adapter
External
Legacy
Storage
Yes, Max 1
(MD1020
and
Ridgeback)
PCIe
slot x8 Yes x4 ext
x4 ext
0, 1, 5,
10, 50 TBBU
SAS HBA SAS/SATA
SAS 6/iR
Integrated
Internal
Backplane
Storage
(No tape
or SSD
support)
Yes, Max 1 Storage
slot x8 No x4 int
x4 int 0, 1 No
SAS 5/E
Adapter
External
SAS (DAS,
Tape)
Yes, Max 1 PCIe
slot x8 Yes x4 ext
x4 ext none No
ICH9
On Planar
via chipset
Internal
slim-line
SATA
Optical
and/or
TBU Only
(no HDD)
Yes, 1 port
for optical n/a n/a n/a 1x int n/a n/a
LSI 2032 SCSI
LSI 2032
Adapter
External
SCSI Tape/
Legacy
External
storage
Yes, Max 2 PCIe
slot x8 Yes 1x int
1x ext n/a n/a