Optical Drives - Dell PowerEdge M910 Technical Manual

PERC H200
The PERC H200 Modular card is an expansion controller that incorporates two four-channel 6Gbps
SAS IOCs for connection to SAS hard disk drives. It is designed in a form factor that allows the same
card to be used in other 11G blade-server platforms.
PERC H700
The M915 also supports the PERC H700 Modular storage controller card with battery-backed cache.
The PERC H700 card has its own processor with a PCIe 2.0 host interface and DDR2 memory.
SATA repeater
The M910 does not support the SATA repeater. The only SATA drives supported by M910 are the SSD
drives, which are only supported off the PERC solution.
PERC 6/i
For customers who want a hardware RAID solution, the PERC 6/i is available as an optional
customer kit. The PERC 6/i uses the LSI 1078 ROC (RAID on Chip) processor with a PCIe host
interface and DDR2 memory. A battery is available with this card.

Optical drives

Optical drives are optional in all M910 systems and connect to the blade via the front USB interface.
The following internal slim-line drives are available on the M910:
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DVD-ROM
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DVD+RW
PATA (IDE) optical drives are not supported.
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