Ports And Connectors Specifications; Usb Ports; Nic Ports; Serial Connector - Dell PowerEdge R730xd Owner's Manual

Table 20. Supported hard drive and SSD options for the PowerEdge R730xd system
Fourteen hard drive systems
Eighteen hard drive systems
Twenty six hard drive systems
Twenty eight hard drive systems

Ports and connectors specifications

USB ports

The PowerEdge R730xd system supports:
• USB 2.0-compliant ports on the front panel
• USB 3.0-complaint ports on the back panel
• internal USB 3.0-compliant port
The following table provides more information about the USB specifications:
Table 21. USB specifications
System Front panel
PowerEdge R730xd One USB management
port/iDRAC Direct

NIC ports

The PowerEdge R730xd system supports four Network Interface Controller (NIC) ports on the back panel,
which is available in one of the following three NIC configurations:
• Four 1 Gbps
• Two 1 Gbps and two 10 Gbps
• Four 10 Gbps

Serial connector

The serial connector connects a serial device to the system. The PowerEdge R730xd system supports one
serial connector on the back panel, which is a 9-pin connector, Data Terminal Equipment (DTE), 16550-
compliant.
Up to twelve 3.5-inch hard drives and two optional
2.5-inch back-accessible hard drives.
Up to twelve 3.5-inch hard drives, two optional
2.5-inch back-accessible hard drives and four 3.5-
inch hard drives in the middle hard drive tray.
Up to twenty-four 2.5-inch hard drives and two
optional 2.5-inch back-accessible hard drives.
Up to twenty 2.5-inch hard drives, up to four 2.5-
inch Dell PowerEdge Express Flash devices (PCIe
SSD) and up to two optional 2.5-inch back-
accessible hard drives.
Up to eighteen 1.8-inch hard drives, up to eight
3.5-inch hard drives, and up to two 2.5-inch back-
accessible hard drives.
Back panel
Two 9-pin, USB 3.0-
compliant ports
Internal
One 9-pin, USB 3.0-
compliant port
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