Dell R610 Server User Manual


 
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R610 Technical Guidebook
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B. Boot Order
Refer to the Whoville BIOS Specification for the most up-to-date lane assignments and scan order
PCIe scan order (from the BIOS HW spec v1.0)
IOHport1,2(PCIExpressGen1x4)–BroadcomBCM5709CGigabitLOM#1
IOHport3(PCIExpressGen1x4)–BroadcomBCM5709CGigabitLOM#2
ICH9 port 1-4 (PCI Express Gen1 x4) – Integrated PERC6i or SAS6i on the Center riser
IOH port 7/8 (PCI Express Gen2 x8) – Slot 1 on the “center” riser
IOH port 9/10 (PCI Express Gen2 x8) – Slot 2 on the “left” riser
SECTION 12. STORAGE
A. Overview / Description
I. 2.5" SAS Backplane Subsystem
ThePowerEdgeR610hasasinglesix-drivebackplanefor2.5"drives.Therearesixhot-swapcapable
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) slots with two LED indicators per slot, two Mini-SAS
cable connectors for connecting the backplane to the integrated SAS 6/iR or PERC 6/i, and a 14-pin
powerconnector.ForSATA/SASmixing,uptofourSATAdrivesaresupportedwiththe2.5"backplane.
In this configuration, one pair of drives will be SAS and the remaining drives will be SATA.
II. Cabling
Two Mini-SAS cables are used to connect both channels of the integrated storage card to the six-drive
backplane. The Mini-SAS A connector connects drives 0 through 3 and the Mini-SAS B connector
connectsdrives4and5tothestoragecard.
B. Drives
I. Internal Hard Disk Drives
ThePowerEdgeR610systemsupportsuptosix2.5"harddiskdrives.
•Supportfor10,000and15,000rpmSASdrives
•Supportfor7,200rpmEnterpriseSATAandSATAudrives
•HarddrivesmustusetheHannibaldrivecarrier
•UptosixSASoruptosixSATAdrivesaresupported
•ForSAS/SATAmixing,twoSASanduptofourSATAdrivesarepossible
•ApairofSASdrivesmustbeinstalledinslots0and1
•SupportforSolidStateDrives(SSD)
•SSDsrequirethePERC6/iIntegratedstoragecontrollerandcannotbemixedwithany
other type of hard drive
2.5 HDDs
2.5" Enterprise SATA 7.2K HDs:
160GB, 250GB, and 500GB
2.5" SAS 10K HDs
73GB, 146GB, and 300GB
2.5" entry 10K SAS in Boss Hogg 3.5" HDD carrier
2.5" SAS 15K HDs
73GB, 146GB
2.5" Enterprise SATA SSD
25GB, 50GB, 100GB
2.5" SSD
25GB, 50GB