DELL PowerEdge R840 Rack Server NVME Kingstone DC1500M 7.68TB U.2

Question

Dear Support teami have purchased 6 Kingstone DC1500M 7.68TB U.2 Disks and planning to purchase DELL R840 Rack server , so i would like to know which BAY -  RAID Controller - Backplane i should choose in order to have my new server compatible with these disksYour Fast Response Is highly Appreciated Regards

DELL-Shine K · Answer

Below link have details on various backplane option supported by PowerEdge R840

https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/poweredge-r840/per840_ism_pub/drive-mapping?guid=guid-fe0726bb-6162-42cf-a548-b5e83e0b5de7&lang=en-us

Are you have drives from Dell. Below are the part# of 7.68TB NVMe drives supported on PowerEdge R840.

Number	Part Description	Details
R1J8J	SSDR,NVRII,7.6T,U.2,PM1733A	7.6TB, SSD, Non Encrypted, NVMe, Read Intensive, U.2, Samsung, PM1733A
DX74Y	SSDR,NVRII,7.68,U.2,PM1733,V2	SSD, NVMe, Read Intensive, U.2, Express Flash, Gen4, PM1733 V2
VD0JX	SSDR,7.68TB,NVRII,U.2,CM6	SSDR NVMe 7.68TB U.2 CM6 by KIOXIA
Y27TR	SSDR,7.68,NVME,2.5,PM1733	SSDR,Dell Express Flash NVMe 7.68TB Read Intensive (RI) 2.5 U.2 (PM1733) by Samsung
RNN67	SSDR,NVRII,7.68TB,U.2,P5500	SSDR NVMe 7.68TB U.2 P5500 by Intel

If the drives are not from Dell or not supported in PowerEdge R840, we can not guarantee that it will work

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