Drive specifications
Drives
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R240 system supports:
•
4 x 3.5-inch hot-swappable SAS, SATA, or SSD
•
4 x 3.5-inch cabled drives
•
2 x 3.5-inch cabled drives
NOTE:
LED functionality is not supported on cabled hard disk drive configuration.
Backplane:
•
Up to 4 x 3.5-inch SAS, SATA drives, or SSD drives
•
Up to 4 x 2.5-inch SAS, SATA drives, or SSD drives
Optical drives
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R240 system supports the following optical drives.
Table 20. Supported optical drive type
Supported drive type
Dedicated SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD +/-RW drive
Ports and connectors specifications
USB ports specifications
Table 21. Dell EMC PowerEdge R240 system USB specifications
Front
USB port type
No. of ports
USB 2.0-compliant
One
port
Micro USB 2.0-
One
compliant port for
iDRAC Direct
NOTE:
The micro USB 2.0 compliant port can only be used as an iDRAC Direct or a management port.
NIC ports specifications
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R240 system supports up to two 10/100/1000 Mbps Network Interface Controller (NIC) ports that are located
on the back panel.
Serial connector specifications
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R240 system supports one serial connector on the back panel, which is a 9-pin connector, Data Terminal
Equipment (DTE), 16550-compliant.
Supported number of drives
One
Rear
USB port type
USB 3.0-compliant
Two
ports
No. of ports
USB port type
Internal USB 3.0-
compliant port
Internal
No. of ports
One
Technical specifications
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