Dell R710 manual HDDs

Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook

Section 12. Storage

A. Overview / Description

The PowerEdge R710 supports three different backplanes to support different hard drive configurations: six 3.5" hard drives, four 3.5" hard drives, or eight 2.5" hard drives.

On each backplane are two LED indicators per drive slot with one or two mini-SAS x4 cable connectors for connecting the backplane to the integrated SAS 6/iR or PERC 6i, and a power connector to connect to the planar. Both Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives are supported. For SAS/SATA mixing, two SAS drives are supported with the 3.5" backplane.

B. Drives

I. Internal Hard Disk drives

The PowerEdge R710 supports up to eight 2.5" or six 3.5" hard disk drives.

•Support for 15,000 rpm 3.5" SAS drives

•Support for 10,000 and 15,000 rpm 2.5" SAS drives

•Support for 7,200 rpm 3.5" Near Line SAS drives

•Support for 7,200 rpm 3.5" and 2.5" Enterprise SATA drives

•Support for 7,200 rpm 3.5" and 2.5" SATAu drives

•For SAS/SATA mixing, two SAS and up to six SATA drives are possible

•A pair of SAS drives must be installed in slots 0 and 1

•One mixed 2.5" and 3.5" hard drive configuration is allowed:

•A pair of 2.5" 10k rpm SAS drives must be installed with an adapter in a 3.5" hard drive carrier in drive slots 0 and 1

•The remaining hard drives must be 3.5" hard drives and must be either all SAS or all

SATA

•Support for 25 and 50GB 2.5" solid state drives at RTS (additional solid state drive support is

Post RTS)

•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 3.5" HDD carrier
2.5" SAS 15K HDs	73GB and 146GB
2.5" Enterprise SATA SSD	25GB, 50GB, and 100GB
2.5" SSD	25GB and 50GB
3.5 HDDs
Support for 3.5" Enterprise SATA 7.2K:	160GB, 250GB, 500GB, 750GB, and
	1,000GB
Support for 3.5" Enterprise SATAu 7.2K:	500GB SATAu, 750GB SATAu, and
	1 ,000GB SATAu
Support for 3.5" Green Enterprise SATA 5.4K	1,000GB
Support for 3.5" Near Line SAS 7.2K	500GB, 750GB, and 1,000GB
Support for 3.5" SAS 15K HDs:	146GB, 300GB, and 450GB

Table: R710 supported HDD matrix

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