Section 12. Storage; Overview / Description; Drives; Internal Hard Disk Drives - Dell POWEREDGE R710 Series Technical Manualbook

Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 Technical Guidebook

sectiOn 12. stORaGe

a. Overview / Description
The PowerEdge R710 supports three different backplanes to support different hard drive configurations:
six 3.5" hard drives, four 3.5" hard drives, or eight 2.5" hard drives.
On each backplane are two LED indicators per drive slot with one or two mini-SAS x4 cable connectors
for connecting the backplane to the integrated SAS 6/iR or PERC 6i, and a power connector to connect
to the planar. Both Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives are supported. For
SAS/SATA mixing, two SAS drives are supported with the 3.5" backplane.
b. Drives
I. Internal Hard Disk drives
The PowerEdge R710 supports up to eight 2.5" or six 3.5" hard disk drives.
• S upport for 15,000 rpm 3.5" SAS drives
• S upport for 10,000 and 15,000 rpm 2.5" SAS drives
• S upport for 7,200 rpm 3.5" Near Line SAS drives
• S upport for 7,200 rpm 3.5" and 2.5" Enterprise SATA drives
• S upport for 7,200 rpm 3.5" and 2.5" SATAu drives
• F or SAS/SATA mixing, two SAS and up to six SATA drives are possible
• A pair of SAS drives must be installed in slots 0 and 1
• O ne mixed 2.5" and 3.5" hard drive configuration is allowed:
• A pair of 2.5" 10k rpm SAS drives must be installed with an adapter in a 3.5" hard drive
carrier in drive slots 0 and 1
• T he remaining hard drives must be 3.5" hard drives and must be either all SAS or all
SATA
• S upport for 25 and 50GB 2.5" solid state drives at RTS (additional solid state drive support is
Post RTS)
• S SDs require the PERC 6/i Integrated storage controller and cannot be mixed with any other
type of hard drive
2.5 HDDs
2.5" Enterprise SATA 7.2K HDs
2.5" SAS 10K HDs:
2.5" entry 10K SAS in 3.5" HDD carrier
2.5" SAS 15K HDs
2.5" Enterprise SATA SSD
2.5" SSD
3.5 HDDs
Support for 3.5" Enterprise SATA 7.2K:
Support for 3.5" Enterprise SATAu 7.2K:
Support for 3.5" Green Enterprise SATA 5.4K
Support for 3.5" Near Line SAS 7.2K
Support for 3.5" SAS 15K HDs:
160GB, 250GB, and 500GB
73GB, 146GB, and 300GB
73GB and 146GB
25GB, 50GB, and 100GB
25GB and 50GB
160GB, 250GB, 500GB, 750GB, and
1,000GB
500GB SATAu, 750GB SATAu, and
1 ,000GB SATAu
1,000GB
500GB, 750GB, and 1,000GB
146GB, 300GB, and 450GB
Table: R710 supported HDD matrix
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