Hard Drives / Solid State Drives
The hard drives (HDD) / Solid State Drives (SSD) are non-hot plug SATA drives. The internal drives are mounted using included screws. Any 2.5″ drives require an adapter / caddy. See below for an option I use.
Storage Controllers
There are two storage options available: S100i Software RAID and the Marvell 88SE9230. The S100i Software RAID is not supported by all operating systems, including vSphere. The Marvell RAID controller is supported by Windows, Linux, and vSphere.
S100i Software supports RAID 0 and RAID 1.
Marvell RAID supports RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 10.