Storage; Internal Storage; Table 12. Storage Options; Table 13. Supported Drives - Dell PowerEdge R630 Technical Manual

6 Storage

The Dell PowerEdge R630 provides storage expandability that allows you to adapt to your workload
and operational demands. With comprehensive storage options, the R630 offers various drive types,
internal and external storage controllers, and different chassis and backplanes for varied numbers of
drives.
Features such as Express Flash PCIe SSDs and DAS Cache provide vastly accelerated performance
over previous technologies. Dell Express Flash drives use PCIe lanes to connect directly to the
processor and chipset and are easily accessible through a hot-plug drive bay.

Internal storage

With the 8-drive bay, 10-drive bay or 24-drive bay chassis options, the R630 supports five internal
storage options and shown in Table 12.
Storage option
8 x 2.5" SAS/SATA (2 PCIe slots)
8 x 2.5" SAS/SATA (3 PCIe slots)
10 x 2.5" SAS/SATA
10 x 2.5" SAS/SATA with PCIe SSD
24 x 1.8" SATA
Note: A backplane cannot be upgraded or reconfigured after point of purchase.
Supported drives
The R630 supports the drives listed in Table 13. For additional information, visit the R630 page on
Dell.com.
Form Type
factor
SATA (6Gb)
NL-SAS (6Gb)
SAS (6Gb)
2.5"
SAS (6Gb)
SATA SSD (mix use, 6Gb)
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Table 12. Storage options
Storage controller and quantity
1 x PERC S130, H330, H730, H730P
1 x PERC S130, H330, H730, H730P
1 x PERC H330, H730, H730P
1 x PERC H330, H730, H730P
1 or 2 x PERC H330, H730, H730P
Table 13. Supported drives
Speed Capacities
(RPM)
7.2K 250GB, 500GB, 1TB
7.2K 500GB, 1TB*
10K 300GB, 600GB, 1.2TB*, 1.8TB 512e, 1.8TB 4Kn*
15K 300GB, 600GB*, 600GB 4Kn*
N/A 100GB, 200GB, 400GB, 800GB