Dell PowerEdge R810 User Manual

86 Installing System Components
Hard Drives
All drives connect to the system board through the SAS/SATA backplane
board mounted on the front-chassis assembly. Hard drives are supplied in
hot-swappable drive carriers that fit in the hard-drive bays.
CAUTION: Before attempting to remove or install a drive while the system is
running, see the documentation for the SAS controller card to ensure that the host
adapter is configured correctly to support hot-swap drive removal and installation.
CAUTION: Do not turn off or reboot your system while the drive is being formatted.
Doing so can cause a drive failure.
NOTE: Use only drives that have been tested and approved for use with the
SAS/SATA backplane board.
When you format a hard drive, allow enough time for the formatting to be
completed. Be aware that high-capacity hard drives can take a number of
hours to format.
Removing a Hard-Drive Blank
CAUTION: To maintain proper system cooling, all empty hard-drive bays must
have drive blanks installed.
1 If installed, remove the front bezel . See "Removing the Front Bezel" on
page 83.
2 Grasp the front of the hard-drive blank, press the release button and slide
the blank out until it is free of the drive bay. See Figure 3-4.
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Dell PowerEdge R810 Specifications

General

Form Factor	2U rack server
Chipset	Intel 7500 chipset
Memory Slots	32 DIMM slots
Processor	Up to four Intel Xeon 6500/7500 series processors
Memory	Up to 512GB (32 DIMM slots): 1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB DDR3
Storage	Up to six 2.5" SAS or SATA drives
RAID Controller	PERC H700, PERC H800
Network	Four embedded Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709c Gigabit Ethernet NICs
Power Supply	Redundant 1100W or 750W AC power supplies
Expansion Slots	6 x PCIe Gen2 slots (3 x x8, 3 x x16)
Operating System Support	Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware ESXi