Table 3. Front panel of the 8 x 3.5-inch hard drive and 18 x 1.8-inch SSD chassis PowerEdge R730xd
chassis (continued)
Item Indicator, Button, or
Connector
Icon Description
5 Hard drives
Up to eight 3.5 inch hot-swappable hard drives and eighteen
1.8 inch hot-swappable uSATA SSDs.
6 USB management port/iDRAC
Direct
The USB management port is USB 2.0 compliant. Enables you
to connect USB devices to the system or provides access
to the iDRAC Direct features. For more information, see the
Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller User’s Guide at
Dell.com/idracmanuals.
7 Video connector Enables you to connect a display to the system.
8 Quick Sync (optional)
Indicates a Quick Sync enabled system. The Quick Sync
feature is optional and needs a Quick Sync bezel. This feature
allows management of the system by using mobile devices.
This feature aggregates hardware or firmware inventory and
various system level diagnostic and error information that can
be used in troubleshooting the system. For more information,
see the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller User’s
Guide at Dell.com/idracmanuals.
Back panel
Figure 5. Back panel features
1. System identification button 2. System identification connector
3. iDRAC8 Enterprise port 4. Half-height PCIe expansion card slot
5. Serial connector 6. Video connector
7. USB port 8. Full-height PCIe expansion card slot
9. Ethernet connector 10. Power supply unit 1
11. Power supply unit 2 12. vFlash media card slot
13. Hard drive
Table 4. Back panel features
Item Indicator, button, or
connector
Icon Description
1 System identification button The identification buttons on the front and back panels can be
used to locate a particular system within a rack.
14 Dell PowerEdge R730xd system overview