Raid Cards; Sata Repeater; Perc6/I; H200 - Dell PowerEdge M610x Technical Manual

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12.7 RAID Cards

The M610x will support a variety of RAID cards.
12.7.1

SATA Repeater

The PE M610x internal SATA Repeater HBA is an expansion card that plugs into the dedicated storage
controller slot. It is connected to the ICH9 SATA port via that slot for support of one SATA 2.5‖ hard
drive. The SATA drives are NOT hot pluggable.
12.7.2

PERC6/i

For customers who want a hardware RAID solution, the PERC6i is an option, as a customer kit. The
PERC6i uses the LSI 1078 ROC (RAID on Chip) processor with a PCI Express host interface and DDR2
memory. A battery is available with this card. For details of this card, see the PERC6 Hardware
Product Specification.
12.7.3

H200

The M610x supports the latest SAS solution called H200.
12.7.4

H700 and H800

The M610x supports the latest PERC solutions: the H700 and H800. Details of the PERC H700M can be
found in the PERC H700 and H800 Technical

12.8 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.

12.9 Optical Drives

Optical drives are optional in all M610x systems and connect to the blade through the front USB
interface. The following internal slim-line drives are available on M610x: DVD-ROM and DVD+RW.
PATA (IDE) optical drives are not supported.
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Guidebook. Both offer a battery-backed cache.
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