Storage; Supported Hard Drives; Storage Controllers; Table 10. Supported Hard Drives - Dell PowerEdge T20 Technical Manual

Storage

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The Dell PowerEdge T20 supports up to four 3.5-inch hard drives and up to two 2.5-inch hard
drives.
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4x 3.5-inch cabled drive bays from motherboard SATA connector
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3x 3.5-inch cabled SATA, plus SATA optical disk drive device from motherboard SATA
connector
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2x 2.5-inch cabled SATA via add-on storage controller, plus 4x 3.5-inch cabled SATA from
motherboard SATA connector

Supported hard drives

Table 10 lists the PowerEdge T20 hard drive options. For additional information, see
Dell.com/PowerEdge.
Form factor
2.5"
3.5"

Storage controllers

The PowerEdge T20 supports Intel Rapid Storage Controller 12.0 software RAID and hardware RAID
from the optional storage controller card available at
StarTech Part #: PEXSAT32
Dell Part#: A4046565
Dell PowerEdge T20 Technical Guide
Table 10. Supported hard drives
Type
SATA
SATA SSD
SATA
Enterprise
The PEXSAT32 2-Port PCIe SATA 6GB controller card
connectivity between a host computer and SATA 3.0 devices — a cost-
effective solution for connecting high-speed storage, such as High RPM
hard drives and solid state drives (SSD), which in turn allows for easier data
backups and archiving.
Note: Additional SATA cables are required to connect the card with fourth and
fifth hard drives and an additional power extension cable is required to connect
the system power to these drives.
Speed Capacities
(rpm)
10K 250GB, 500GB
6Gb 160GB
7.2K 500GB, 1TB
7.2K 2TB, 3TB
Dell.com.
offers simple
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