Drives
SSD, or Nearline SAS drives in hard-drive slots 0 through 11
and 12 through 13.
or
Twelve plus two and four–hard-drive
systems
Up to twelve 3.5 inch and optional two 2.5 inch back-
accessible and four 3.5 inch (in the hard-drive tray),
internal, hot-swappable SAS, SATA, SAS/SATA SSD, or
Nearline SAS drives in hard-drive slots 0 through 11 and 12
through 15.
Twenty-four plus two–hard-drive
systems
Up to twenty-four and two optional 2.5 inch back-
accessible, internal, hot-swappable SAS, SATA, SAS/SATA
SSD, or Nearline SAS drives in hard-drive slots 0 through 23
and 24 to 25.
Or
Up to twenty 2.5 inch, internal, hot-swappable SAS, SATA,
SAS/SATA SSD, or Nearline SAS drives in hard-drive slots 0
through 19, and up to four 2.5 inch Dell PowerEdge Express
Flash devices (PCIe SSDs) in slots 20 to 23 and two optional
2.5 inch back-accessible SAS, SATA, SAS/SATA SSD or
Nearline SAS hard drives in hard-drive slots 24 and 25.
Twenty eight hard drive systems Up to eighteen 1.8 inch, internal, hot-swappable uSATA
SSD drives in hard-drive slots 0 through 17, up to eight 3.5
inch, internal, hot-swappable SAS, SATA, SAS/SATA SSD, or
Nearline SAS drives in hard-drive slots 18 through 25, and
two 2.5 inch back-accessible SAS, SATA, SAS/SATA SSD, or
Nearline SAS drives in hard-drive slots 26 through 27.
Optical drive One optional SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD+/-RW drive.
NOTE: DVD devices are data only.
NOTE: This setting is not available on PowerEdge
R730xd systems.
Connectors
Back
NIC Four 1 Gbps, two 1 Gbps plus two 10 Gbps, or four
10 Gbps
Serial 9-pin, DTE, 16550-compatible
USB Two 4-pin, USB 3.0-compliant
Video 15-pin VGA
External vFlash card
(PowerEdge R730xd)
One flash memory card slot with iDRAC8
Enterprise card
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