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PowerEdge R515 Technical Guide
11 Storage
11.1 Overview
There are two chassis types for the PowerEdge R515:
8 hard drive chassis: 8 x hot- plug 3.5‖ or 2.5‖ HDD (in HDD carrier); support for one slim optical disk
drive (ODD)
12 hard drive chassis: 12 x hot- plug 3.5‖ or 2.5‖ HDD (in HDD carrier) and 2 x internal cabled 2.5‖
HDD; no ODD support
Table 16. Supported Hard Drives
Form Factor
Capacity
Speed
Type
3.5‖
160GB, 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB
7.2K
SATA
3.5‖
500GB, 1TB, 2TB
7.2K
NL SAS
3.5‖
146GB
15K
SAS 3Gb
3.5‖
300GB, 450GB, 600GB
15K
SAS 6Gb
2.5‖
146GB, 300GB, 600GB
10K
SAS
2.5‖
50GB
N/A
SSD
11.2 RAID Configurations
Table 17. Raid Configurations (8 HDD Chassis)
Factory Configuration
No Mixed HDD
(must be all 2.5" or 3.5"
HDDs)
Type
#
Name
Description
Min
HDD
Max
HDD
SW RAID (Add-in
card)
C1
ASSR5
RAID5 (PERC S300)
3
8
C2
ASSR10
RAID10 (PERC S300)
4
8
No RAID (Add-in
card)
C3
ASS
No RAID (PERC H200)
1
8
RAID (Add-in
card)
C4
ASSR0
RAID0 (PERC H200, PERC H700)
2
8
C5
ASSR1
RAID1 (PERC PERC H200, PERC H700)
2
2
C6
ASSR10
RAID10 (PERC H200, PERC H700)
4
8
C7
ASSR5
RAID5 (PERC H700)
3
8
C8
ASSR6
RAID6 (PERC H700)
4
8
C9
ASSR1/R5
RAID1 + RAID5 (PERC H700)
2 +
3
2 +
6