Drives, General drive installation guidelines – Dell Precision 690 User Manual
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Drives
Dell Precision™ Workstation 690 User's Guide
Your computer supports:
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Up to four SAS (serial-attached SCSI) hard drives and one serial ATA (SATA) hard drive, or five SATA hard drives
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Up to four CD/DVD drives (if no floppy drive, Media Card Reader, or hard drive is installed in a 5.25-inch bay)
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One floppy drive or Media Card Reader
General Drive Installation Guidelines
When you install a drive, you connect two cables—a DC power cable from the power supply and a data cable—to the back of the drive. The other end of the
data cable will connect to either an expansion card or to the system board. Most connectors are keyed for correct insertion; that is, a notch or a missing pin on
one connector matches a tab or a filled-in hole on the other connector.
Power Cable Connectors
SATA and SAS hard drives should be connected to connectors labeled "HDD" on the system board, with the exception of a fifth SATA hard drive installed in a
5.25-inch drive bay, which much be connected to the SATA0 connector. Non-hard drive SATA devices should be attached to the connectors labeled SATA. IDE
CD/DVD drives should be connected to the connectors labeled "IDE."
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four 5.25-inch drive bays (can hold a CD/DVD drive, or a floppy drive, Media Card Reader, or SATA hard drive in a special drive case)
NOTE:
The 5.25-inch Media Card Reader/floppy-drive drive carrier is not interchangeable with the hard-drive drive carrier.
2 special floppy drive/ Media Card Reader drive panel plate and insert
3 four hard-drive bays (can hold SATA or SAS hard drives)
1 power cable
2 power input connector