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PowerEdge R710 Technical Guide 42
Storage
Overview
The R710 supports three of the following backplanes to support different hard drive configurations:
• Four 3.5” hard drives
• Six 3.5” hard drives
• Eight 2.5” hard drives
On each backplane are two LED indicators per drive slot with one or two mini-SAS x4 cable connectors for
connecting the backplane to the integrated SAS 6/iR or PERC 6i card and a power connector to connect to the
planar. Both Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives are supported. SAS/SATA mixing and
the use of 2.5" drives in a 3.5" chassis are supported.
Internal Hard Disk Drives
The PowerEdge R710 supports up to eight 2.5” hard drives or up to six 3.5” hard drives. See Table 10 for
information on supported hard drives. For the most up-to-date information on supported hard drives, visit
Dell.com
.
Supported Hard Drives Table 10.
Form Factor
Capacity
Speed
Type
3.5”
250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB
7.2K
SATA
3.5”
500GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB
7.2K
NL SAS
3.5”
600GB
10K
SAS
3.5”
146GB, 300GB, 450GB, 600GB
15K
SAS
2.5”
160GB, 250GB, 500GB, 1TB
7.2K
SATA
2.5”
500GB, 1TB
7.2K
NL SAS
2.5”
146GB, 300GB, 600GB
10K
SAS
2.5”
73GB, 146GB, 300GB
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:
• For SAS/SATA mixing:
o Two SAS and up to six SATA drives are allowed
o Two SAS drives must be installed in slots 0 and 1
• One mixed 2.5” and 3.5” hard drive configuration is allowed:
o Two 2.5” 10,000 rpm SAS drives installed with an adapter in a 3.5” hard-drive carrier in drive
slots 0 and 1
o The remaining hard drives must be 3.5” hard drives and must be either all SAS or all SATA
• SSDs require the PERC 6/i or PERC H700 integrated storage controller card and cannot be mixed with
any other type of hard drive
• Limited SSD and SAS mixing is supported