Dell
PowerEdge M910 Technical Guide
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Storage
12.1
Hard Drives
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M910 supports up to two 2.5‖ SAS SSD, SATA SSD, or nearline SAS hard disk
drives. See Table 11 for information on supported hard drives. For the most up-to-date information
on supported hard drives, visit Dell.com.
Supported Hard Drives
Table 11.
Form Factor
Capacity
Speed
Type
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, 1TB
7.2K
nearline SAS
12.2
Hard Disk Drive Carriers
The PowerEdge M910 supports the 11G 2.5‖ hard drive carrier. Legacy carriers are not supported on
M910.
Figure 5.
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 12 lists the factory-installed RAID configurations for the PowerEdge M910.
