Dell EMC PowerEdge R7425 - Optical Drive; Ports and Connectors Specifications; USB Ports; NIC Ports

• up to four 2.5 inch (SAS, SATA or Nearline SAS) rear accessible drives in slots 24 to 27
NOTE
: Hot swap for the NVMe drives is supported for your system. For more information on correct usage and technical
specications, see the Dell PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD 2.5 inch Small Form Factor User's Guide at
Dell.com/
support/
manuals
> All Products > Server, Storage, & Networking > Dell Adapters page.
Optical drive
The PowerEdge R7425 system supports one optional slim SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD +/-RW drive.
Ports and connectors specica
tions
USB ports
The PowerEdge R7425 system supports:
• Two USB 2.0-compliant ports on the front of the system
• One internal USB 3.0-compliant port
• One optional USB 3.0-compliant port on the front of the system
• One micro USB 2.0-compliant port in the front of the system for iDRAC Direct
NOTE: The micro USB 2.0 compliant port on the front of the system can only be used as an iDRAC Direct or a management
port.
• Two USB 3.0-compliant ports on the back of the system
NIC ports
The PowerEdge R7425 system supports up to four Network Interface Controller (NIC) ports that are integrated on the network daughter
car
d (NDC), and are available in the following congurations:
• Four RJ-45 ports that support 10, 100 and 1000 Mbps
• Four RJ-45 ports that support 100 M, 1 G and 10 Gbps
• Four RJ-45 ports, where two ports support maximum of 10 G and the other two ports maximum of 1 G
• Two RJ-45 ports that support up to 1 Gbps and 2 SFP+ ports that support up to 10 Gbps
• Four SFP+ ports that support up to 10 Gbps
• Two SFP28 ports that support up to 25 Gbps
NOTE: You can install up to eight PCIe add-on NIC cards.
NOTE
: For information about Linux network settings, see the Linux ® Network Tuning Guide for AMD EPYC ™ Processor Based
Servers
AMD tuning guide.
VGA ports
The Video Graphic Array (VGA) port enables you to connect the system to a VGA display. The PowerEdge R7425 system supports two 15-
pin V
GA ports on the front and back panels.
Technical specications 31