Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge MX840c Installation and Service Manual
- About this document
- Dell EMC PowerEdge MX840c overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Installing and removing sled components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your sled
- After working inside your sled
- Recommended tools
- PowerEdge MX840c sled
- Sled cover
- Air shroud
- Processor expansion module
- Drives
- Drive backplane
- Cable routing
- Drive cage
- Battery backup unit
- Control panel
- System memory
- Processors and heat sinks
- iDRAC card
- PERC cards
- Optional Internal dual SD module
- M.2 BOSS module
- Mezzanine card
- Optional internal USB memory key
- System battery
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Jumpers and connectors
- System diagnostics and indicator codes
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Figure 30. Installing a drive into the drive carrier
Drive backplane
Drive backplane connectors
Depending on the configuration, the drives supported on the PowerEdge MX840c sled are listed in the table.
Table 3. Supported drives options for the PowerEdge MX840c sled
Drives Specifications
Eight drives Up to eight 2.5 inch (SAS, SATA, Nearline SAS, or NVMe)
front accessible drives in slots 0 to 7.
Dual processor sled NVMe drives are supported in the slots 4 to 7.
NOTE: NVMe is not supported in the slots 0 to 3.
Quad processor sled NVMe drives are supported in the slots 0 to 7.
Six drives Up to six 2.5 inch (SAS, SATA, Nearline SAS, or NVMe) front
accessible drives in slots 0 to 5.
Dual processor sled NVMe drives are supported in the slots 2 to 5.
NOTE: NVMe is not supported in the slots 0 to 1.
Quad processor sled NVMe drives are supported in the slots 0 to 5.
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