Supported Hard Drives; Perc8 Storage Controller; Table 5. Supported Hard Drives - Dell PowerEdge VRTX Technical Manual

Supported hard drives

The VRTX shared storage supports the internal drives listed in Table 5.
Form
Type
factor
Nearline SAS (6Gb)
SAS (6Gb)
2.5"
SAS (6Gb)
SSD (SLC)
Nearline SAS (6Gb)
3.5" SAS (6Gb)
SAS (6Gb)
For the latest information on supported hard drives, visit Dell.com/PowerEdge.

PERC8 storage controller

The shared PERC8 card is located between the storage array and the power distribution board on
the VRTX planar. The shared PERC8 slot routes SAS to the nearby planar miniSAS connectors, which
are used to internally cable SAS from the PERC to the SAS expander cards in the storage array
The VRTX shared PERC8 card has additional features, beyond a standard monolithic PERC-mini card,
at the driver and firmware level to support shared storage. A unique PCIe ID is used to indicate
shared storage capability and compatibility in the VRTX system.
For more information about the latest PERC offerings, see Dell.com/PERC.
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Table 5. Supported hard drives
Speed
Capacities
(rpm)
7.2K 500GB, 1TB
10K 600GB, 900GB, 1.2TB
15K 146GB, 300GB
N/A 200GB, 400GB
7.2K 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 4TB
10K 600GB, 900GB, 1.2TB
15K 300GB, 450GB, 600GB
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