Dell PowerEdge T610 User Manual

Installing System Components 145
1 Connect the backplane signal cable to the backplane. See Figure 3-25.
2 Position the SAS backplane so that the metal tabs in the chassis are fully
inserted into the securing slots on the backplane. See Figure 3-25.
3 Slide the backplane down until the release pin snaps into place.
4 Reconnect the cables that were previously routed over the notch in the
backplane board.
a Connect the internal USB module cable to the INT_USB connector
on the system board.
b Connect the SAS A and SAS B cables to the integrated storage card.
See "Installing an Integrated Storage Controller Card."
c Connect the power cables to any internal optical or tape drives, if
present. See "Installing an Optical or Tape Drive."
5 Reconnect the following cables to the backplane (see Figure 3-25):
• SAS A cable
• SAS B cable
• backplane power cable
6 Install the hard drives in the system. See "Installing a Hot-Swap Hard
Drive."
NOTE: Reinstall the hard drives in the same drive bays from which they were
removed.
7 Install the cooling shroud. See "Installing the Cooling Shroud."
8 Install the expansion card stabilizer. See "Installing the Expansion Card
Stabilizer."
9 Close the system. See "Closing the System."
10 Place the system upright and on its feet on a flat, stable surface.
11 Reattach any peripherals, then connect the system to the electrical outlet.
12 Turn on the system and attached peripherals.
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Dell PowerEdge T610 Specifications

General

Form Factor	5U Tower
Chipset	Intel 5520
Memory Slots	12 DIMM slots
Processor	Up to two Intel Xeon 5500 or 5600 series processors
Memory	1GB/2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB DDR3
Drive Bays	Up to 8 x 3.5" or 16 x 2.5" hot-swap SAS, SATA or SSD
RAID Controller	PERC 6/i, PERC H700, PERC H800
Power Supply	570W or 870W
Network Interface	Embedded Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709c Gigabit Ethernet
Maximum Internal Storage	Up to 16TB
Expansion Slots	6 PCIe slots
Operating System Support	Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware