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Dell PowerEdge M610 Technical Guide
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Storage
12.1
Overview
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610 supports two 2.5‖ storage drives that connect to its hot-plug backplane.
These drives can be either SATA or SAS, and either HDD or SSD, though if two are installed, they both
must be of the same technology type.
All enterprise-class 2.5‖ storage drives sold by Dell are qualified, including those that offer Self
Encrypting Drive functionality as well as the 6Gb SAS drives. All storage drives used with the PERC
H700 must be purchased from Dell.
12.2
Hard Disk Drive Carriers
The M610 supports a 2.5‖ hard drive carrier as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3.
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
Both RAID 0 and RAID 1 are supported as long as a RAID card is included.
12.6
Storage Controllers
The M610 supports a variety of internal RAID cards through a dedicated PCI Express Gen1 x4 slot, as
shown in the matrix on
Dell.com
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12.6.1
SATA Repeater (MOD N014K)
The M610 internal SATA Repeater HBA is an expansion card that plugs into the dedicated storage
controller slot. The card is connected to the ICH9 SATA port through the controller slot to support
one SATA 2.5‖ hard drive. The SATA drives are not hot-pluggable.