Dell T630 Backplane Question

Question

Hello, I currently have a T630 with a 16 bay 2.5' SAS backplane. I have 8x 300GB 15K SAS in Raid 10 and came across 8x 4TB 3.5' SATA Drives. I would like to be able to utilize the 4TB drives in RAID 6. Dell said (in chat), that this server can support the backplane I have, plus a backplane for the 8x 4TB SATA drives. PN: 70YDP I have a PERC H730 Controller and an H330 Controller both installed. Is this valid what I am being told? If not, is there a way I can utilize the 8x 4TB drives? I don't mind sacrificing some space with the 2.5' drives or even RAID 10 as it is purely going to be for the OS. Thanks - Jason

Pesky_penguiN · Answer

Based on this;

Depending on your configuration, your system supports one of the following:

3.5 inch x8 SAS/SATA backplane
3.5 inch x18 SAS/SATA backplane
2.5 inch x4 Dell PowerEdge Express Flash (PCIe SSD) backplane
2.5 inch x16 SAS/SATA backplane
2.5 inch x32 SAS/SATA backplane

Depending on your configuration, your system supports one of the following backplane combinations:

3.5 inch x8 SAS/SATA backplane and 2.5 inch x4 PCIe SSD backplane
2.5 inch x16 SAS/SATA backplane and 2.5 inch x4 PCIe SSD backplane
2.5 inch x16 SAS/SATA backplane for hard-drives in the hard-drive bay and 2.5 inch x16 SAS/SATA backplane for hard-drives in a flex bay.

I assume 1x 3.5" x18 SAS/SATA backplane and the 3.5" to 2.5" trays should do the trick?

Does anyone know the part number?

Thanks - Jason

PowerEdge HDD/SCSI/RAID

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