Dell EMC PowerEdge R240 - Optical Drives; Ports and Connectors Specifications; USB Ports Specifications; NIC Ports Specifications

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 Supported number of drives
Dedicated SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD +/-RW drive One
Ports and connectors specications
USB ports specications
Table 21. Dell EMC PowerEdge R240 system USB specications
Front Rear Internal
USB port type No. of ports USB port type No. of ports USB port type No. of ports
USB 2.0-compliant
port
One USB 3.0-compliant
ports
Two Internal USB 3.0-
compliant port
One
Micro USB 2.0-
compliant port for
iDRAC Direct
One
NOTE: The micro USB 2.0 compliant port can only be used as an iDRAC Direct or a management port.
NIC ports specications
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 specications
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.
VGA ports specications
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R240 system supports DB-15 VGA connector.
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Technical specications