Dell PowerVault MD3000: Technical Specifications Disks RAID Controller Modules RAID Controller Back-Panel Connectors Backplane Board LED Indicators

Technical Specifications

Disks

Physical disks up to 15 1-inch-by-3.5-inch SAS and/or SATA II hot-plug physical

disks (3.0 Gbps). (See your system readme file for supported disk

capacities.)

RAID Controller Modules

RAID controllers

• 2 hot-pluggable active/active controllers

• 256 MB of cache per controller

• 1 temperature sensor per controller

RAID Controller Back-Panel Connectors

SAS connectors (per RAID

• 1 SAS Port 0 "In" connector for connection to the host

controller)

• 1 SAS Port 1 "In" connector (if installed) for connection to an

additional host

• 1 SAS Port "Out" connector for expansion to an additional

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Debug connector

1 6-pin mini-DIN connector (debug port for Dell factory use only)

(per RAID controller)

Ethernet connector

1 10/100 BASE-T connection for out-of-band management of the

(per RAID controller)

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Backplane Board

Connectors

• 15 SAS physical-disk connectors

• 2 power supply/cooling fan module connectors

• 2 sets of RAID controller connectors (6 connectors each

controller)

• 1 control panel connector for front LEDs

Sensors 2 temperature sensors

LED Indicators

Front panel

• 1 two-color LED indicator for system status

• 2 single-color LED indicators (one for power; one nonfunctional)

Physical disk carrier

• 1 single-color activity LED

• 1 two-color LED status indicator per disk

8 Getting Started With Your System