Internal Hard Disk Drives; Hard Disk Drive Carriers; Empty Drive Bays; Diskless Configuration Support - Dell POWEREDGE R610 Technical Manualbook

Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook
Platforms
All 2.5" HDD SAS (or) SATA
All 2.5" SSD***
Mixed SSD/SAS**
All 3.5" HDD SAT (or) SATA
Mixed SAS/SATA*
2.5" SAS in 3.5" HDD Carrier (RTS+)
2.5" SAS HDD in 3.5" HDD Carrier + 3.5" SATA HDDs (Mixed SAS)
2.5" SAS HDD in 3.5" HDD Carrier + 3.5" SATA HDDs (Mixed SAS/SATA)*
• S AS HDDs should be in slots 0 & 1 and min/max number of SAS HDDs is 2, the rest will be SATA
HDDs and min/max number of SATA HDDs depends on the configuration.
• * *No maximum for SAS HDD's combined with SSD
• * **SSD Support requires PERC 6/i
20GB and 50GB solid state drives (SSD) support will be supported at RTS
I. Hard Disk Drive Carriers
Hard drives must use the Dell drive carrier for 2.5" drives (legacy drive carriers are not
supported).
II. 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.
III. Diskless Configuration Support
The system supports diskless configuration with no storage controller (SAS 6/iR or PERC 6i) installed in
the system. A 2.5" HDD backplane is still installed in this configuration.
IV. Hard Drive 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.
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