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

Drive specications
Drives
The PowerEdge R540 system supports:
• 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
Ports and connectors specications
USB ports
The PowerEdge R540 system supports:
• USB 2.0-compliant port on the front panel
• USB 3.0-compliant port on the back panel
The following table provides more information about the USB specications:
Table 18. 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 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.
Serial connector
The serial connector connects a serial device to the system. The PowerEdge R540 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 R540 system supports two 15-
pin VGA ports on the front and back panels.
Technical
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