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Empty drive bays, Diskless configuration support, Hard drive led indicators – Dell POWEREDGE R610 User Manual

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Figure 8. Dell 2.5” Hard Drive Carrier

12.2.2 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.

12.2.3 Diskless Configuration Support

The system supports diskless configuration with no storage controller (SAS 6/iR, PERC 6i, PERC H200,
or PERC H700) installed in the system. A 2.5‖ hard drive backplane is still installed in this
configuration.

12.2.4 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 bicolor (green/amber) LED for status information. The activity LED
is driven by the disk drive during normal operation. The bicolor LED is controlled by the storage
enclosure processor (SEP) device on the backplane. Both LEDs are used to indicate certain conditions
under direction of a storage controller.
For more information, see the Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns section in the About Your System
chapter in the Dell PowerEdge R610 Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual on

Support.Dell.com

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12.3 RAID Configurations

See Table 11 for information on factory RAID configurations. For information on additional
configurations, visit

Dell.com

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Table 11. Factory RAID Configurations

Non-Mixed Drives
All SATA, all SAS, or
all SSD
All 2.5” Drives

Config
Type

Configs

Description

Min HDD

Max HDD

No HDD

0

NZC

No controller/No hard drive

0

0

SAS or
SATA—No
RAID

1

MSS

Integrated SAS/SATA (SAS 6/iR,
PERC H200), No RAID

1

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