Led Indicators; Optical Drives; Tape Drives; Storage Card Support Matrix - Dell PowerEdge R815 Technical Manual

Dell
Product Usage
Internal
PERC
Backplane
H700
Storage
RAID (HDD,
Integrated
SSD)
PERC
External
H800
SAS/SATA
Storage
Adapter
Internal
Backplane
Storage (No
H200
tape nor
SSD
support)
Internal slim-
line SATA
On Planar
Optical
via chipset
(No HDD)
External
SCSI Tape /
LSI 2032
Legacy
Adapter
External
Storage
11.3

LED Indicators

Each disk drive carrier has two LED indicators visible from the front of the system. One
is a green LED for disk activity and the other is a bicolor (green/amber) LED for status
information. The activity LED is driven by the disk drive during normal operation. The
bicolor LED is controlled by the SEP device on the backplane. Both LEDs are used to
indicate certain conditions under direction of a storage controller. For more
information, see the Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns in the About Your System chapter
of the PowerEdge R715 Hardware Owner's Manual.
11.4

Optical Drives

Optical drives are optional in all PowerEdge R815 systems and connect to the planar
via the SATA interface. The following internal slim-line drives are available on
PowerEdge R815: DVD-ROM and DVD+RW. PATA (IDE) optical drives are not supported.
If an optical drive is not ordered with the system, a blank is installed in its place.
11.5

Tape Drives

External tape drives are supported. No internal tape drive support available.
Dell PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide

Storage Card Support Matrix

Table 13.
PowerEdge
R815
Support
Yes – Max 1
Yes – Max 2
(Red Devil
and Blue
Devil 6 Gb/s
enclosures)
Yes – Max 1
Yes -
1 port for
Optical
Yes – Max 2
PCI PCI
Slot Con Bracket
Storage
x8 No
Slot
PCIe
x8 Yes
slot
Storage
x8 No
Slot
n/a n/a n/a
PCIe
x8 Yes
slot
IO Battery
Con RAID Back Up
0, 1, 5, 6,
x4 int
10, 50, Yes
x2 int
60
0, 1, 5, 6,
x4 ext
10, 50, TBBU
x4 ext
60
x4 int
0, 1 No
x2 int
x1 int n/a n/a
SCSI n/a n/a
ext
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