Led Indicators; Optical Drives; Tape Drives; Storage Card Support Matrix - Dell PowerEdge R815 Technical Manual

Dell
Product
PERC
H700
Integrated
PERC
SAS/
SATA
PERC
H800
Adapter
SAS HBA
SAS/ H200
SATA
On Planar
SP5100
via
SATA
chipset
LSI
LSI 2032
2032
Adapter
SCSI

11.3 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. For more information, see the Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns in the About Your System
chapter of the PowerEdge R815 Hardware Owner's Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals.

11.4 Optical Drives

Optical drives are optional in all PowerEdge R815 systems and connect to the planar via the SATA
interface. The following internal slim-line drives are available on PowerEdge R815: DVD-ROM and
DVD+RW. PATA (IDE) optical drives are not supported. If an optical drive is not ordered with the
system, a blank is installed in its place.

11.5 Tape Drives

External tape drives are supported. No internal tape drive support available.
PowerEdge R815 Technical Guide

Storage Card Support Matrix

Table 15.
PowerEdge
R815
Usage Support
Internal
Backplane
Storage Yes— Max 1
RAID (HDD,
SSD)
Yes—Max 2
External (Red Devil
SAS/SATA and Blue
Storage Devil 6 Gb/s
enclosures)
Internal
Backplane
Storage (No Yes—Max 1
tape nor SSD
support)
Internal
slim-line
Yes—
SATA
1 port for
Optical
Optical
(No HDD)
External
SCSI Tape/
Legacy Yes— Max 2
External
Storage
PCI PCI
Slot Con Bracket
Storage
x8 No
Slot
PCIe slot x8 Yes
Storage
x8 No
Slot
— — —
PCIe slot x8 Yes
Batter
IO y
Con RAID Backup
0, 1, 5,
x4 int
6, 10, Yes
x2 int
50, 60
0, 1, 5,
x4 ext
6, 10, Yes
x4 ext
50, 60
x4 int
0, 1 No
x2 int
x1 int —
SCSI —
ext
—
—
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