Specifications

Dell
PowerEdge R610 Technical Guide 38
12 Storage
12.1 Overview
The PowerEdge R610 has a single six-drive backplane that supports 2.5‖ drives. There are six hot-
swap capable Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) slots with two LED indicators per slot,
two Mini-SAS cable connectors for connecting the backplane to the integrated storage controller, and
a 14-pin power connector. Mixing SAS and SATA drives is supported.
12.2 Internal Hard Disk Drives
The R610 system supports up to six 2.5‖ hard disk drives. See Table 10 for information on supported
hard drives. For the most up-to-date information on supported hard drives, visit Dell.com.
Table 10. Supported Hard Drives
Form Factor
Capacity
Speed
Type
2.5‖
80GB, 160GB, 250GB, 500GB
7.2K
SATA
2.5‖
500GB, 1TB
7.2K
NL SAS
2.5‖
146GB, 300GB, 600GB
10K
SAS
2.5‖
73GB, 146GB
15K
SAS
2.5‖
50GB, 100GB
N/A
SATA SSD
2.5‖
149GB
N/A
SAS SSD
The following additional guidelines apply for hard-drive configurations:
 Hard drives require the 2.5‖ hard-drive carrier
 Up to six SAS or up to six SATA drives are supported
 For SAS and SATA mixing:
o Two SAS and up to four SATA drives are allowed
o Two SAS hard drives must be installed in slots 0 and 1
 Limited SAS and SSD mixing is supported
 SSDs require the PERC 6/i or PERC H700 integrated storage controller card and cannot be
mixed with any other type of hard drive
12.2.1 Hard Disk Drive Carriers
Hard drives must use the Dell 2.5‖ drive carrier. See Figure 8.