Optical Drive; Tape Drive; Ports And Connectors Specifications; Serial Connector - Dell poweredge T430 Owner's Manual

Table 20. Hard Drive Specification
Drives
Hard drives
Four–hard-drive systems
Eight–hard-drive systems
Sixteen–hard-drive systems

Optical drive

The PowerEdge T430 system supports one optional SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD+/-RW drive or One
optional slim SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD +/-RW drive.
Table 21. Optical Drive Specifications
Drives
Optical drive

Tape drive

The PowerEdge T430 system supports up to two optional 5.25 inch tape drive.
NOTE: If your system is installed with a double-width GPU card, the system supports only one 5.25
inch removable media storage device.

Ports and connectors specifications

Serial connector

The serial connector connects a serial device to the system. The PowerEdge T430 system supports DB-9
Serial Port connector.

Internal Dual SD Module

The PowerEdge RT430 system supports two optional flash memory card slots with an internal SD
module.
Up to four 3.5 inch, internal, cabled SATA, or
nearline SAS hard drives.
Up to eight 3.5 inch, internal, hot-swappable SATA,
or nearline SAS hard drives.
NOTE: 2.5 inch hard drives in 3.5 inch carriers
are supported for SAS, and SATA SSD hard
drives.
Up to sixteen 2.5 inch, internal, hot-swappable
SATA, nearline SAS, SAS, or SATA SSD hard drives.
One optional SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD+/-RW
drive.
NOTE: If your system is installed with a
double-width GPU card, the system supports
only one 5.25 inch removable media storage
device.
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