Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 - Optical Drives; Tape Drives; Ports and Connectors Specifications; USB Ports

• Up to 14 x 3.5 inch drives or 2.5 inch drives with drive adapter, internal, hot swappable SAS, SATA, or Nearline SAS drives
or
• Up to 8 x 3.5 inch drives or 2.5 inch drives with drive adapter, internal, hot swappable SATA SSDs
Optical drives
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 system supports one optional slim SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD +/-RW drive.
Tape Drives
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 system supports external tape backup devices.
NOTE: The Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 system does not support internal tape drives.
Supported external tape drives:
• External RD1000 USB
• External LTO-5, LTO-6,LTO-7 and 6 Gb SAS tape drives
• 114X rack mount chassis with LTO-5, LTO-6, and LTO-7 6 Gb SAS tape drives
• TL1000 with LTO-5, LTO-6, and LTO-7 6 Gb SAS tape drives
• TL2000 with LTO-5, LTO-6, and LTO-7 6 Gb SAS tape drives
• TL2000 with LTO-5, LTO-6, and LTO-7 8Gb FC tape drives
• TL4000 with LTO-5, LTO-6, and LTO-7 6 Gb SAS tape drives
• TL4000 with LTO-5, LTO-6, and LTO-7 8Gb FC tape drives
• ML6000 with LTO-5, LTO-6, 6 Gb SAS tape drives
• ML6000 with LTO-5, LTO-6, LTO-7 8Gb FC tape drives
Ports and connectors specications
USB ports
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 system supports:
Table 23. USB
specications
Front panel Back panel Internal USB
• Two USB 2.0-compliant port
• One iDRAC Direct (Micro-AB USB)
port
• Two USB 3.0-compliant port • One internal USB 3.0 port
NIC ports
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 system supports two Network Interface Controller (NIC) ports on the back panel, which have two 1 Gbps
conguration.
NOTE
: You can install up to six PCIe add-on NIC cards.
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