Dell PowerEdge R630 - 6 Storage; Internal Storage; Table 12. Storage Options; Table 13. Supported Drives

24 PowerEdge R630 Technical Guide
6 Storage
The Dell PowerEdge R630 provides storage expandability that allows you to adapt to your workload
and operational demands. With comprehensive storage options, the R630 offers various drive types,
internal and external storage controllers, and different chassis and backplanes for varied numbers of
drives.
Features such as Express Flash PCIe SSDs and DAS Cache provide vastly accelerated performance
over previous technologies. Dell Express Flash drives use PCIe lanes to connect directly to the
processor and chipset and are easily accessible through a hot-plug drive bay.
Internal storage
With the 8-drive bay, 10-drive bay or 24-drive bay chassis options, the R630 supports five internal
storage options and shown in Table 12.
Table 12. Storage options
Storage option
Storage controller and quantity
8 x 2.5” SAS/SATA (2 PCIe slots)
1 x PERC S130, H330, H730, H730P
8 x 2.5” SAS/SATA (3 PCIe slots)
1 x PERC S130, H330, H730, H730P
10 x 2.5” SAS/SATA
1 x PERC H330, H730, H730P
10 x 2.5” SAS/SATA with PCIe SSD
1 x PERC H330, H730, H730P
24 x 1.8” SATA
1 or 2 x PERC H330, H730, H730P
Note: A backplane cannot be upgraded or reconfigured after point of purchase.
Supported drives
The R630 supports the drives listed in Table 13. For additional information, visit the R630 page on
Dell.com.
Table 13. Supported drives
Form
factor
Type
Speed
(RPM)
Capacities
2.5”
SATA (6Gb)
7.2K
250GB, 500GB, 1TB
NL-SAS (6Gb)
7.2K
500GB, 1TB*
SAS (6Gb)
10K
300GB, 600GB, 1.2TB*, 1.8TB 512e, 1.8TB 4Kn*
SAS (6Gb)
15K
300GB, 600GB*, 600GB 4Kn*
SATA SSD (mix use, 6Gb)
N/A
100GB, 200GB, 400GB, 800GB