Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610 Technical Guidebook
SECTION 11. STORAGE
A. Hard Drive Overview / Description
The PowerEdge M610 supports 2 2.5" hard drives. These drives can be either SATA, SAS or SSD.
Both RAID 0 and RAID 1 are supported as long as a RAID card is included.
Hard Disk Drive Carriers
Hard drives must use the new Dell drive carrier for 2.5" drives.
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.
Diskless Configuration Support
The system supports diskless configuration with no storage controller installed in the system.
Hard Drive LED Indicators
Each disk drive carrier has two LED indicators visible from the front of the system. One is a green LED
for disk activity and the other is a bi-color (green/amber) LED for status information. The activity LED
is driven by the disk drive during normal operation. The bi-color LED is controlled by the SEP device on
the backplane. Both LEDs are used to indicate certain conditions under direction of a storage controller.
B. Storage Controllers
The PowerEdge M610 will support a variety of RAID cards
•ASATAcontrollercomesstandardandsupportsboththeSATAdrivesandsomeSSD.
•CERC6-TheM610supportsthiscardwith128MBofRAIDcache.
