Dell PowerEdge R940xa EMC Technical Specifications - Page 21

The PowerEdge R940xa system supports SAS, SATA, Nearline SAS hard drives/SSDs, or NVMe drives. The supported drive options for the PowerEdge R940xa system are: • 8 drives system - Up to eight 2.5 inch (SAS, SATA or Nearline SAS) front accessible drives in slots 0 through 7. • 32 drives system - Up to 24 2.5 inch (SAS, SATA or Nearline SAS) including 4 NVMe front accessible drives (slots 20 to 23)in slots 0 to 23 of upper drives bay, and up to eight 2.5 inch (SAS, SATA or Nearline SAS) front accessible drives in slots 24 to 31 of lower drives bay. Supported drives Table 8. Supported Drives - SAS and SATA or SSD Form Factor Type Speed Rotational Capacities Speed 2.5 inch SATA, 6 Gb N/A SSD 240GB, 400GB, 480GB, 800GB, 960GB, 1600GB, 1920GB, 3200GB, 3840GB SATA 6 Gb 7.2K 1 TB, 2 TB SAS 12 Gb 7.2K 1 TB, 2 TB, 2 TB(SED FIPS) SAS,SSD 12 Gb N/A 400GB, 480GB, 800GB, 960GB, 1600GB, 1920GB, 3840GB, 800GB(SED FIPS), 1600GB(SED FIPS) SAS 12 Gb 10K 300GB, 600GB, 1.2TB, 1.8TB, 2.4TB, 1.2TB(SED FIPS), 2.4TB (SED FIPS) SAS 12 Gb 15K 300GB, 600GB, 900GB, 900GB (SED FIPS) The NVMe SSD drives supported by the Dell EMC PowerEdge R940xa are: • 800 GB 2.5 inch device • 1 TB 2.5 inch device • 1.6 TB 2.5 inch device • 2 TB 2.5 inch device • 3.2 TB 2.5 inch device • 4 TB 2.5 inch device • 6.4 TB 2.5 inch device • KIT,CRD,NVM,1.6,HHHL,PM1725 • KIT,CRD,CTL,NVME,PM1725 • KIT,CRD,NVM,3.2,HHHL,PM1725 Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem The Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS) is offered as a means of booting PowerEdge systems to a full operating system mode when: • Target operating system is a full operating system and not hypervisor that may be supported best by IDSDM • You do not want to trade off standard hot plug drive slots for operating system install The RAID controller on the BOSS card has limited set of features. This RAID controller presents the M.2 SATA SSDs as either a non-RAID volume or as a single RAID volume. Technical specifications 21