Hard Drive Backplane - Dell EMC XC640 Series Installation And Service Manual

Appliance and xc core system
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Figure 58. Installing a hard drive into the hard drive carrier

Hard drive backplane

NOTE:
NVMe drive slots are 6, 7, 8, and 9. XC640-4 does not support NVMe drives.
Drive slot numbering is 0 relative for chassis. All NVMe drives are installed in the last slots. Maximum of four NVMe drives are
supported.
Depending on your system configuration, the drive backplanes that are supported in XC640 Series are listed here:
Table 44. Supported backplane options for XC640 Series Appliance and Core Systems
System
XC640 Series
NOTE:
Mixing of 2.5 inch 10K or 15 K SAS hard drives with 2.5 inch 7.2 K SATA or Nearline SAS hard drives on the same
backplane is not supported. You can mix solid-state drives with hard drives on the same backplane.
Figure 59. XC640-10
The settings for XC640-10 are listed here.
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Installing and removing system components
Supported drives options
2.5 inch (x10) SAS, SATA, or NVMe backplane
3.5 inch (x4) SAS or SATA backplane

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