Optical Drive; Ports And Connectors Specifications; Usb Ports; Nic Ports - Dell PowerEdge R830 Owner's Manual

Table 13. Supported hard drive options for the PowerEdge R830 system
Sixteen hard drive systems

Optical drive

The system supports one optional SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD+/-RW drive.

Ports and connectors specifications

USB ports

The PowerEdge R830 system supports:
• USB 2.0-compliant ports on the front and back panel
• USB 3.0-complaint port on the back panel
The following table provides more information about the USB specifications:
Table 14. USB specifications
System
PowerEdge R830

NIC ports

The PowerEdge R830 system supports four Network Interface Controller (NIC) ports on the back panel, which are available in the
following two configurations:
• four 1 Gbps, or
• two 10 Gbps
NOTE: You can install up to six PCIe add-on NIC cards.

Serial connector

The serial connector connects a serial device to the system. The PowerEdge R830 system supports one serial connector on the
back panel, which is a 9-pin connector, Data Terminal Equipment (DTE), 16550-compliant.

VGA ports

The Video Graphic Array (VGA) port enables you to connect the system to a VGA display. The PowerEdge R830 system supports
two 15-pin VGA ports on the front and back panels.

Internal Dual SD Module

The PowerEdge R830 system supports two optional flash memory card slots with an internal dual SD module.
NOTE: One card slot is dedicated for redundancy.

Video specifications

The PowerEdge R830 system supports Matrox G200eR2 graphics card with 16 MB capacity.
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Front panel
• One 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant port
• One USB management port/iDRAC Direct
Up to sixteen 2.5-inch, internal, hot-swappable SAS, SATA, SAS/
SATA SSD, or Nearline SAS hard drives
Back panel
• One 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant port
• One 4-pin, USB 3.0-compliant port