Dell PowerEdge M710 Technical Guide
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Storage
12.1
Drives
The PowerEdge™ M710 supports up to four hot-pluggable 2.5‖ SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS, or nearline
SAS hard disk drives. See Table 8 for information on supported hard drives. For the most up-to-date
information on supported hard drives, visit Dell.com.
Table 8.
Supported Hard Drives
Form Factor
Capacity
Speed
Type
2.5‖
149GB
N/A
SAS SSD
2.5‖
50GB, 100GB
N/A
SATA SSD
2.5‖
73GB, 146GB
15K
SAS
2.5‖
146GB, 300GB, 600GB,
900GB
10K
SAS
2.5‖
500GB
7.2K
nearline SAS
12.2
Hard Disk Drive Carrier
The PowerEdge M710 supports the Dell eleventh-generation 2.5‖ hard drive carrier.
Figure 6.
2.5” HDD Carrier
12.3
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.
12.4
Diskless Configuration Support
The system supports diskless configuration with no storage controller (H200/PERC 7i) installed in the
system. A 2.5‖ HDD backplane is installed in this configuration.
12.5
RAID Configurations
Table 9 lists the factory-installed RAID configurations for the PowerEdge M710.
