Storage; Hard Drives; Hard Disk Drive Carriers; Empty Drive Bays - Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Manual

12 Storage

Hard drives

The PowerEdge M910 supports up to two 2.5" SAS SSDs, SATA SSDs, SAS HDDs, or nearline SAS
HDDs. See Table 11 for information on supported hard drives. For the most up-to-date information
on supported hard drives, visit Dell.com/PowerEdge.
Form factor
2.5"
2.5"
2.5"
2.5"
2.5"

Hard disk drive carriers

The PowerEdge M910 supports the 11
supported on M910.

Empty drive bays

For the slots that are not occupied by drives, a carrier blank is provided to maintain proper cooling,
to maintain a uniform appearance to the unit and to provide EMI shielding.

Diskless configuration support

The system supports diskless configuration with no storage controller (H200/PERC 7i) installed in
the system. A 2.5" HDD backplane is installed in this configuration.
PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide
Table 11. Supported hard drives
Capacity
149GB
50GB, 100GB, 200GB, 400GB,
800GB
73GB, 146GB
146GB, 300GB, 600GB, 900GB,
1.2TB
500GB, 1TB
th
generation 2.5" hard drive carrier. Legacy carriers are not
Figure 4. 2.5" HDD carrier
30
Speed Type
N/A SAS SSD
N/A SATA SSD
15K SAS
10K SAS
7.2K nearline SAS