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Storage
Storage
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R940xa provide scalable storage that allows you to adapt to your workload and operational demands. The
Dell EMC PowerEdge R940xa oers storage expansion with the middle hard drive tray and rear hard drive cage. The hard drive bay
supports up to 32 2.5 inch hard drives or SSDs.
Drive
The PowerEdge R940xa system supports SAS, SATA, Nearline SAS hard drives/SSDs, or NVMe drives.
The supported drive options for the PowerEdge R940xa system are:
• 8 drives system - Up to eight 2.5 inch (SAS, SATA or Nearline SAS) front accessible drives in slots 0 through 7.
• 32 drives system - Up to 24 2.5 inch (SAS, SATA or Nearline SAS) including 4 NVMe front accessible drives (slots 20 to 23)in
slots 0 to 23 of upper drives bay, and up to eight 2.5 inch (SAS, SATA or Nearline SAS) front accessible drives in slots 24 to 31 of
lower drives bay.
Supported drives
Table 11. Supported Drives - SAS and SATA or SSD
Form
Factor
Type Speed Rotational
Speed
Capacities
2.5 inch SATA,
SSD
6 Gb N/A 240GB, 400GB, 480GB, 800GB, 960GB, 1600GB, 1920GB, 3200GB, 3840GB
SATA 6 Gb 7.2K 1 TB, 2 TB
SAS 12 Gb 7.2K 1 TB, 2 TB, 2 TB(SED FIPS)
SAS,SSD 12 Gb N/A 400GB, 480GB, 800GB, 960GB, 1600GB, 1920GB, 3840GB, 800GB(SED FIPS),
1600GB(SED FIPS)
SAS 12 Gb 10K 300GB, 600GB, 1.2TB, 1.8TB, 2.4TB, 1.2TB(SED FIPS), 2.4TB (SED FIPS)
SAS 12 Gb 15K 300GB, 600GB, 900GB, 900GB (SED FIPS)
The NVMe SSD drives supported by the Dell EMC PowerEdge R940xa are:
• 800 GB 2.5 inch device
• 1 TB 2.5 inch device
• 1.6 TB 2.5 inch device
• 2 TB 2.5 inch device
• 3.2 TB 2.5 inch device
• 4 TB 2.5 inch device
• 6.4 TB 2.5 inch device
• KIT,CRD,NVM,1.6,HHHL,PM1725
• KIT,CRD,CTL,NVME,PM1725
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