Dell POWEREDGE R515 - LED Indicators; Optical Drives; Tape Drives; External Storage Support

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PowerEdge R515 Technical Guide
Table 21. RAID Configurations (12 HDD Chassis, 12 + 2 HDDs)
(12 + 2 HDD) Factory Configuration
No Mixed HDD
(Must be all
2.5" or 3.5"
HDDs)
Internal
HDD
(2.5” SAS)
(must be
exactly 2
HDDs)
Type
#
Name
Description
Min
HDD
Max
HDD
No RAID
(Add-in
card)
14
ASS/+iR1
No RAID (PERC H200)
1
12
2
RAID (Add-
in card)
15
ASSR0/+iR
1
RAID0 (PERC H200, PERC H700)
2
12
2
16
ASSR5/+iR
1
RAID5 (PERC H700)
3
12
2
17
ASSR6/+iR
1
RAID6 (PERC H700)
4
12
2
18
ASSR1/R5
/+iR1
RAID1 + RAID5 (PERC H700)
2 + 3
2 + 10
2
19
ASSR5/R1
0/+iR1
RAID5 + RAID10 (PERC H700)
4 + 4
4 + 8
2
11.3 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 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
PowerEdge R515 Hardware Owner’s Manual on Dell.com/Support.
11.4 Optical Drives
The PowerEdge R515 supports one SATA interface, DVD-ROM or DVD+/-RW, in the 8 hard drive chassis. The
R515 with the 12 hard drive chassis does not support an optical drive.
11.5 Tape Drives
For more information on supported tape drives and tape libraries, see Dell.com/Storage.
11.6 External Storage Support
External storage devices are supported. For more information, see Dell.com/Storage.