Hard Drives/Ssds; Hard Drive/Ssd Bay Numbering - Dell PowerEdge M830 Owner's Manual

Hard drives/SSDs

Your system supports up to four 2.5 inch SAS/SATA/PCIe SSDs or SAS /SATA hard drives and twelve 1.8
inch SAS SSDs. The hard drives/SSDs are supplied in special hot-swappable drive carriers that fit in the
drive bays and these drives connect to the system board through the hard-drive/SSD backplane board.
NOTE: Mixing of SSD/SAS/SATA hard drives is not supported.

Hard drive/SSD bay numbering

Figure 24. Hard drive/SSD bay numbering — 2.5 inch hard drive/SSD system
Figure 25. Hard drive/SSD and PCIe SSD bay numbering — 2.5 inch hard drive/SSD and PCIe SSD system
1. hard drive/SSD bay numbering 2. PCIe SSD bay numbering
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