Dell PowerEdge T20 - System Setup Options

Dell PowerEdge T20 Technical Guide 14
5 Storage
The Dell PowerEdge T20 supports up to four 3.5-inch hard drives and up to two 2.5-inch hard
drives.
• 4x 3.5-inch cabled drive bays from motherboard SATA connector
• 3x 3.5-inch cabled SATA, plus SATA optical disk drive device from motherboard SATA
connector
• 2x 2.5-inch cabled SATA via add-on storage controller, plus 4x 3.5-inch cabled SATA from
motherboard SATA connector
Supported hard drives
Table 10 lists the PowerEdge T20 hard drive options. For additional information, see
Dell.com/PowerEdge
.
Table 10. Supported hard drives
Form factor Type Speed
(rpm)
Capacities
2.5”
SATA 10K 250GB, 500GB
SATA SSD 6Gb 160GB
3.5”
SATA 7.2K 500GB, 1TB
Enterprise 7.2K 2TB, 3TB
Storage controllers
The PowerEdge T20 supports Intel Rapid Storage Controller 12.0 software RAID and hardware RAID
from the optional storage controller card available at Dell.com.
The PEXSAT32 2-Port PCIe SATA 6GB controller card
offers simple
connectivity between a host computer and SATA 3.0 devices — a cost-
effective solution for connecting high-speed storage, such as High RPM
hard drives and solid state drives (SSD), which in turn allows for easier data
backups and archiving.
Note: Additional SATA cables are required to connect the card with fourth and
fifth hard drives and an additional power extension cable is required to connect
the system power to these drives.
StarTech Part #: PEXSAT32
Dell Part#: A4046565