User Manual
Dell 
PowerEdge R610 Technical Guide      9 
Feature  R510  R610  R710 
External Drive 
Bay(s) 
Four- and eight-drive 
chassis: optional internal 
SATA slimline optical 
drives such as DVD-ROM 
or DVD+RW 
Twelve-drive chassis: 
N/A 
Optional internal SATA 
slimline optical drives 
such as DVD-ROM or 
DVD+RW 
Optional flex bay 
expansion to support 
half-height tape backup 
unit 
Embedded Hard 
Drive Controller 
PERC 6/i, SAS 6/iR, PERC 
H200, PERC H700, PERC 
S100, PERC S300 
PERC 6/i, SAS 6/iR, PERC 
H200, PERC H700 
PERC 6/i, SAS 6/iR, PERC 
H200, PERC H700 
Optional Storage 
Controller 
Non-RAID: 
SAS 5/E 
LSI 2032 (for tape backup 
unit only) 
6Gps SAS HBA 
RAID: 
SAS 6/iR  
PERC 6/i 
PERC 6/E 
PERC H200 
PERC H700 
PERC H800 
Software RAID: 
PERC S100 (4-drive 
chassis only) 
PERC S300 (4- and 8-
drive chassis only) 
Non-RAID: 
SAS 5/E 
LSI 2032 (for tape backup 
unit only) 
6Gps SAS HBA 
RAID: 
SAS 6/iR  
PERC 6/i 
PERC 6/E 
PERC H200 
PERC H700 
PERC H800  
Non-RAID: 
SAS 5/E 
LSI 2032 (for tape backup 
unit only) 
6Gps SAS HBA 
RAID: 
SAS 6/iR  
PERC 6/i 
PERC 6/E 
PERC H200 
PERC H700 
PERC H800 
Availability 
Hot-plug hard drives, 
redundant power, 
quad-pack LED diagnostic 
or LCD (with hot-plug 
hard drive chassis), 
memory mirroring 
Hot-plug hard drives, 
hot-plug redundant 
power and cooling, 
ECC memory, 
Single Device Data 
Correction (SDDC), 
memory demand and 
patrol scrubbing, 
high-availability failover 
cluster 
Hot-plug hard drives, 
hot-plug redundant 
power and cooling, 
ECC memory, 
Single Device Data 
Correction (SDDC), 
memory demand and 
patrol scrubbing, 
high-availability failover 
cluster 
Server 
Management 
BMC, IPMI 2.0, Dell 
OpenManage™ 
Optional: iDRAC6 
Express, iDRAC 6 
Enterprise, vFlash 
iDRAC6 Express, BMC, 
IPMI 2.0, Dell 
OpenManage™ 
Optional: iDRAC6 
Enterprise, vFlash 
iDRAC6 Express, BMC, 
IPMI 2.0, Dell 
OpenManage™ 
Optional: iDRAC6 
Enterprise, vFlash 
I/O Slots 
3 PCIe + 1 storage slot or 
1 PCIe + 1 storage slot 
2 PCIe x8 G2 
2 PCIe x8 + 2 PCIe x4 G2 
or 
1 x PCIe x16 + 2 PCIe x4 
G2 










