Reference Guide
Statement of Volatility – Dell EMC PowerEdge MX5000s
The Statement of Volatility provides you the information related to volatile and non-volatile components of different configurations of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.
Volatile components lose their data when power cord is removed from the system, whereas, non-volatile components continue to retain their data when the power has
been removed from the component.
The following table provides information of different configurations of the PowerEdge MX5000s.
Item
Non-
Volatile or
Volatile
Quantity
Reference
Designator
Size of
memory
Type of
memory
(e.g. Flash
PROM,
EEPROM)
Can user programs
or operating
system write data
to it during normal
operation?
What is the
Purpose?
(e.g. boot
code)
How is data
written to
this
memory?
How is
memory write-
protected?
How is memory
cleared?
Main Board
EXP SPI Flash
Non-Volatile
1
U_EXP_SPIRO
M
128 Mb
SPI Flash
No
EXP operation
firmware storage
SPI interface via
EXP
Hardware
strapping
Not user clearable
EXP EEPROM
Non-Volatile
1
U3001
32 Mb
EEPROM
No
EXP configuration
data
SPI interface via
EXP
Hardware
strapping
Not user clearable




