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PowerEdge R610 Technical Guide 39

Figure 8. Dell 2.5” Hard Drive Carrier

12.2.2 Empty Drive Bays

For the slots that are not occupied by drives, a carrier blank is provided to maintain proper cooling,

maintain a uniform appearance to the unit, and provide EMI shielding.

12.2.3 Diskless Configuration Support

The system supports diskless configuration with no storage controller (SAS 6/iR, PERC 6i, PERC H200,

or PERC H700) installed in the system. A 2.5” hard drive backplane is still installed in this

configuration.

12.2.4 Hard Drive 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 storage

enclosure processor (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 section in the About Your System

chapter in the Dell PowerEdge R610 Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com

12.3 RAID Configurations

See Table 11 for information on factory RAID configurations. For information on additional

configurations, visit Dell.com

Table 11. Factory RAID Configurations

Non-Mixed Drives

All SATA, all SAS, or

all SSD

All 2.5” Drives

Config

Type

Configs Description Min HDD Max HDD

No HDD

NZC

No controller/No hard drive

SAS or

SATA—No

RAID

1 MSS

Integrated SAS/SATA (SAS 6/iR,

PERC H200), No RAID

1 6