Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 - Storage; Supported Drives

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Storage
The system enables multiple storage congurations to tune the system conguration for a wide variety of workloads. The C6400
chassis is available in the following conguration types:
• No hard drives in a No-Backplane Conguration
• 24 x 2.5" Direct Backplane conguration with up to 6 SAS/SATA drives per node
• 24 x 2.5" Expander Backplane conguration with up to 12 SAS/SATA drives per node and two nodes per chassis
• 24 x 2.5" NVMe Backplane conguration with up to 6 drives per node out of which two drives can be NVMe drives
• 12 x 3.5" Direct Backplane conguration with up to 3 SAS/SATA drives per node
Supported drives
The PowerEdge C6420 system supports up to 24 x 2.5” hard disk drives per server node and up to 12 x 3.5” hard disk drives per
server node depending on the number of installed nodes and backplane type (max 6 x 2.5” HDDs using 2.5”direct backplane; max 3 x
3.5” HDDs using 3.5" direct backplane).
• Support for 7.2K, 10K and 15K RPM 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SAS drives
• Support for 7.2K RPM Enterprise 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SATA
NOTE: For the latest list of drives available on C6420, please always refer to the options available in quoting and ordering
tools. This list may not accurately reect the comprehensive list of all drives available on the C6420 platform.
The following table list the supported NVMe drives:
Table 7. Supported NVMe drives
Description Interface Capacity DPN Type
SSDR,800G,NVMEPCIE,
2.5,PM1725A
PCIe 800GB KWH83 MU
SSDR,1.6T,NVMEPCIE,
2.5,PM1725A
PCIe 1.6TB JD6CH MU
SSDR,3.2,NVMEPCIE,
2.5,PM1725A
PCIe 3.2TB JDMHM MU
SSDR,3.2,NVME,PCIE,
2.5,PM1725
PCIe 3.2TB 99JNC MU
SSDR,6.4,NVMEPCIE,
2.5,PM1725A
PCIe 6.4TB Y3XT2 MU
The following table shows the supported SSD drives:
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