Expansion cards, Expansion card installation guidelines – Dell PowerEdge T410 User Manual
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Installing System Components
Expansion Cards
The system board can support up to four PCIe Generation 2 and one PCIe
Generation 1 cards. To identify the expansion slots, see Figure 6-1.
Expansion Card Installation Guidelines
Observe the following notes and guidelines regarding the expansion-card
slots:
•
The expansion-card slots are not hot-swappable.
•
PCI Express Generation 2 and Generation 1 expansion cards are supported
in all slots.
•
Slots 2 and 3 support full-length expansion cards; slots 1, 4, and 5 support
half-length expansion cards.
•
The system supports up to two SAS or PERC expansion cards to manage
internal tape drives or external storage.
CAUTION:
To ensure proper cooling, no more than two of the five expansion
cards can have a power consumption of greater than 15 W (up to 25 W maximum
each), not including the integrated storage controller.
1. Maximum of 2 of any card whose maximum power exceeds 15W.
2. Refer to the expansion card documentation to ensure that the maximum power does not exceed
15W.
Table 3-3.
Expansion-Card Installation Order
Card Priority
Card Type
Slot Priority
Max Allowed 25-W Card
1
PERC 6/i controller
5,4
2
Y
2
SAS 6/iR controller
5,4
2
Y
3
SAS 5/iR controller
5,4
2
Y
4
PERC 6/E controller
5,4
2
Y
5
SAS 5/E controller
5,4
2
Y
6
All other Dell storage
cards
3,2,4,5,1
2
Y
7
Non-Dell storage cards 4,5,1,2,3
5
1
N
2
8
All other NICs
2,1,3,4
4
1
N
2
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