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Poweredge R640 and NVMe drives 2.5
Hi!
Please tell me:
I want to order R640 with 10 2.5. And i want use 2.5 NVME drives.
1) Am i need special front backplane ? p/n ?
2) Backplane connect to motherboard or i need to buy extension card ?
3) Am i need RAID PERC 330 (if i want use 2 sata devices for boot) ?
DELL-Chris H
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January 15th, 2020 05:00
Almot77,
You indeed can have the 10 drives with 2 Nvme drives, but it would be done at time of order, as there is a chassis difference between the system supporting the additional Nvme and the standard 10 drive chassis. So if you go here, you can see the configuration with the 10 drive/2 Nvme chassis and H330 controller. https://dell.to/30pEeKJ
Hope this helps.
Almot77
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January 20th, 2020 05:00
Thank you! "10 drive/2 Nvme" - you mean 10 drive - 2 ssd
2.5" Chassis with up to 10 Hard Drives, 8 NVMe Drives and 3PCIe Slots, 2CPU only
hendranata
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September 4th, 2021 07:00
how about R640 with 8 bay 2.5". .does it support nvme 2.5" disk?
DELL-Shine K
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September 5th, 2021 03:00
8 bay chassis of R640 only support SAS/SATA drive. Please check below link for details
https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/poweredge-r640/per640_ism_pub/backplane-details?guid=guid-b3535477-163e-4e58-91b2-978f00c263cd&lang=en-us
ddjongDell
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December 1st, 2021 03:00
this is from technical document, but is any disk type / brand supported or are there specific restrictions?
ddjongDell
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December 1st, 2021 03:00
can i see somewhere what NVME drives are supported on 10 bay chassis (8xnvme)...?
I want to use 8x NVMe disks (1.92TB?) as single volume raid 10 configuration with 8 NVMe drives ... under windows server 2022 or under linux .. i dont mind which one of the 2...
ddjongDell
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December 1st, 2021 03:00
is e.g. samsung 1725a supported? Is samsung 1725b supported? would be great to have a list of supported disks ...
DELL-Erman O
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December 1st, 2021 04:00
Hello,
Unfortunately, there is no such a list for on public. But I will try to help as follows, I will share the part codes of the spare part NVMes I can find through the tool I have access to. Apart from that, you can check the part search part by entering the service tag of the server on the site here https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-parts-finder/cp/dpf
As a method, you can search the firmware versions by selecting the solid-state drive category from the drivers section of the support site here https://dell.to/3pny1w6
Lastly, I couldn't find the models you gave, but drives that do not have a Dell label on the 3rd party may not work properly due to FW incompatibility. Since I know that there are people who use non-certified drives in the community, maybe if there is someone who has information about the models you ask for, a response can be expected from them.
Hope that helps!
ddjongDell
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December 2nd, 2021 04:00
I can purchase 8 pcs of below / above disk:
Samsung Samsung PM1733 2.5" 1920 GB PCI Express 4.0 NVMe | My Media Center B.V.
a) how can i find out if this disk is compatible? Can i check firmware?
b) if it does not have right firmware, can i replace / udpate firmware with the DELL version of it?
any recommendations? or just try it? i probably cannot find out via service tag .. or?
DELL-Erman O
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December 2nd, 2021 05:00
Hi, this is a slightly tricky situation. In fact, although the drive features are the same and belong to the same Vendor, Dell prepares its own FW for these enterprise products, gives its own label and part number, and produces solutions in accordance with its products. Now the Dell and non-Dell versions of the same Vendor's drives look the same due to their similarities. They are different on firmware bases. It might even work sometimes, but not the one with a non-Dell drive Dell FW. I don't know how or if there is a backdoor to do this. I have never seen it. However, note that some users are able to use non-Dell drives without FW at their own risk. But in the same way, some users may not use it or see VD as RAID 1 when creating RAID 5, and even encounter problems such as data loss. That's why we recommend not using non-certified drives.
pugazh_a
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November 13th, 2023 19:14
I'm buying an used Poweredge R640 10-bay, how to verify if the bays can take NVMe drives please?