Storage; Hard Drives; Hard Disk Drive Carriers; Empty Drive Bays - Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Manual

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12.1 Hard Drives

The PowerEdge M910 supports up to two 2.5‖ SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS, or nearline SAS hard disk
drives. See Table 11 for information on supported hard drives. For the most up-to-date information
on supported hard drives, visit Dell.com.
Form Factor
2.5‖
2.5‖
2.5‖
2.5‖
2.5‖

12.2 Hard Disk Drive Carriers

The PowerEdge M910 supports the 11G 2.5‖ hard drive carrier. Legacy carriers are not supported on
M910.

12.3 Empty Drive Bays

For the slots that are not occupied by drives, a carrier blank is provided to maintain proper cooling,
maintain a uniform appearance to the unit, and provide EMI shielding.

12.4 Diskless Configuration Support

The system supports diskless configuration with no storage controller (H200/PERC 7i) installed in the
system. A 2.5‖ HDD backplane is installed in this configuration.

12.5 RAID Configurations

Table 12 lists the factory-installed RAID configurations for the PowerEdge M910.
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Table 11.

Supported Hard Drives

Capacity
149GB
50GB, 100GB
73GB, 146GB
146GB, 300GB, 600GB,
900GB
500GB, 1TB
Figure 4. 2.5" HDD Carrier
Speed Type
N/A SAS SSD
N/A SATA SSD
15K SAS
10K SAS
7.2K nearline SAS
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