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Dell PowerEdge R910 Technical Guide 47
13 Storage
13.1 Overview
The R910 system supports up to sixteen 2.5” hard disk drives.
 Support for 10,000 and 15,000 rpm 2.5” SAS drives
 Support for SATA 2.5” solid state drives (SATA SSD)
 Support for 7,200 rpm 2.5” Enterprise SATA drives (only 1 SATA HDD supported)
 Hard drives must use the 2.5” drive carrier
 Mixing of SAS and SATA 2.5” drives in the same system is not supported
 Mixing of SAS and SSD drives in the same system is supported
13.2 Backplanes
R910 supports either a (1) sixteen drive backplane or a (2) four drive backplane for 2.5” drives.
Depending on the type of backplane, there are sixteen or four hot-swap capable Serial Attached SCSI
(SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) drive slots with two LED indicators per slot, up to two Mini-SAS cable
connectors for connecting the backplane to the integrated PERC H200 or H700 storage adapters, and
a 20-pin planar signal/power connector. PERC H200 storage adapter will only be supported with the
2.5” 4-drive HDD backplane.
13.2.1 2.5” x4 Backplane
The 4-drive 2.5‖ HDD backplane assembly is as follows:
 Only 2.5” HDD are supported in this configuration
 One Mini-SAS cable is used to connect channel “A” of the integrated PERC H200 or H700
storage controller card to the four-drive backplane.
 Mixing SATA and SAS is NOT supported.