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Dell EMC PowerEdge MX5016s and MX5000s Installation and Service Manual

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Dell EMC PowerEdge MX5016s sled overview

The PowerEdge MX5016s is a Storage Sled installed in the PowerEdge MX7000 enclosure to provide disk expansion for PowerEdge MX series Compute Sleds. In the PowerEdge MX7000 enclosure, the PowerEdge MX5016s is connected through an internal SAS fabric (Fab-C). The PowerEdge MX5000s provides flexible SAS connectivity between compute sleds, and internal storage sleds connected to the MX7000 enclosure.

PowerEdge MX5016s supports up to:

  • 16 hot-swappable 2.5-inch SAS drives
  • Two hot-swappable expanders providing dual SAS paths for all drives(HDDs/SSDs)
  • Dual x4 SAS links to the MX platform infrastructure
  • 12 GB/s SAS support
NOTE All instances of SAS hard drives and SSDs are referred to as drives in this document, unless specified otherwise.

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