Dell PowerEdge R930 Owner's Manual page 171

Memory
RDIMMs
Minimum RAM
Maximum RAM
Drives
Hard drives
Four hard drive systems
Twenty four hard drive systems (SAS/
SATA)
Twenty four or sixteen plus eight hard
drive systems
Twenty four hard drive systems
(SAS-3 (12 Gbps))
Performance Mode (split-capable)
8 GB, or 32 GB single-, dual-, or quad-rank
32 GB with dual processor with 4 memory risers
64 GB with quad processor with 8 memory risers
1.5 TB with dual processor with 4 memory risers
3 TB with quad processor with 8 memory risers
Up to four 2.5 inch, internal, hot-swappable SAS hard
drives in hard drive slots 0 through 3.
This configuration supports:
• 6 Gbps and 12 Gbps I/O operations on SAS drives.
• 6 Gbps on SATA drives.
Up to twenty four 2.5 inch, internal, hot-swappable SAS/
SATA hard drives.
This configuration supports:
• 6 Gbps and 12 Gbps I/O operations on SAS drives.
• 6 Gbps on SATA drives.
NOTE: With a single Unified mode daughter card and
PERC 9 card the hard drives are located in hard drive
slots 0 through 24 (bay 1).
NOTE: With two Performance mode daughter cards
and two PERC 9 cards the hard drives are located in
hard drive slots 0 through 11 (bay 1) and 0 through 11
(bay 2)
Up to sixteen 2.5 inch, internal, hot-swappable SAS drives
and up to eight Dell PowerEdge Express Flash devices
(PCIe SSDs) hard drives in hard drive slots 0 through 4 (bay
1), 0 through 4 (bay 2), and 0 through 15 (bay 3) for SAS/
SATA with 2 PCIe Extender Cards, one Unified Mode
Daughter Card, and one PERC 9 Card.
NOTE: Performance mode daughter cards (hard drive
slots 0 through 7 on SAS/SATA) are not supported.
Up to twenty four 2.5 inch, internal, hot-swappable SAS
hard drives.
NOTE: When the backplane is NOT in the split mode
with single internal PERC, the maximum number of
SATA/SSDs are 12 in the right bay (hard drives slots 12
through 23).
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