Instruction Manual

8 Getting Started With Your System
Technical Specifications
Disks
Physical disks up to 15 1-inch-by-3.5-inch SAS and/or SATA II hot-plug physical
disks (3.0 Gbps). (See your system readme file for supported disk
capacities.)
RAID Controller Modules
RAID controllers
• 2 hot-pluggable active/active controllers
• 256 MB of cache per controller
• 1 temperature sensor per controller
RAID Controller Back-Panel Connectors
SAS connectors (per RAID
controller)
• 1 SAS Port 0 "In" connector for connection to the host
• 1 SAS Port 1 "In" connector (if installed) for connection to an
additional host
• 1 SAS Port "Out" connector for expansion to an additional
enclosure
Debug connector
(per RAID controller)
1 6-pin mini-DIN connector (debug port for Dell factory use only)
Ethernet connector
(per RAID controller)
1 10/100 BASE-T connection for out-of-band management of the
enclosure
Backplane Board
Connectors
• 15 SAS physical-disk connectors
• 2 power supply/cooling fan module connectors
• 2 sets of RAID controller connectors (6 connectors each
controller)
• 1 control panel connector for front LEDs
Sensors 2 temperature sensors
LED Indicators
Front panel
• 1 two-color LED indicator for system status
• 2 single-color LED indicators (one for power; one nonfunctional)
Physical disk carrier • 1 single-color activity LED
• 1 two-color LED status indicator per disk