Dell PowerEdge R230 User Manual

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Removing the cooling shroud
Installing the cooling shroud
Hard drives
Your system supports enterprise class hard drives. Enterprise class drives are designed for 24x7 operating environment. Selecting the
correct drive class enables the critical areas of quality, functionality, performance, and reliability to be optimized for the target
implementation.
Choosing the right drive type depends on the usage pattern. Due to industry advances, in some cases, the larger capacity drives
have been changed to a larger sector size. The larger sector size can have impacts on operating systems and applications. For more
information about these hard drives, see the
512e and 4Kn Disk Formats whitepaper and 4K Sector HDD FAQ document at
Dell.com/poweredgemanuals.
CAUTION: Before attempting to remove or install a hard drive while the system is running, see the documentation for the
storage controller card to ensure that the host adapter is congured correctly to support hot swappable hard drive
removal and insertion.
CAUTION: Do not turn o or restart your system while the hard drive is being formatted. Doing so can cause a hard drive
failure.
Use only hard drives that have been tested and approved for use with the hard drive backplane.
When you format a hard drive, allow enough time for the formatting to be completed. Be aware that high-capacity hard drives can
take a long time to format.
Supported hard drive congurations
Depending on the conguration, your system supports one of the following:
Four hard drive
systems
Up to four 3.5-inch hot-swappable SATA hard drives, or SATA solid state drives (SSDs)
Up to four 3.5-inch cabled hard drives
Six hard drive
systems
Up to four 3.5-inch cabled hard drives and two optional 1.8-inch SSDs in the optical drive slot
Eight hard drive
systems
Up to eight 2.5-inch, hot-swappable hard drives/SSDs
NOTE: SAS/SATA hard drives cannot be mixed in a system.
The hot-swappable hard drives connect to the system board through the hard drive backplane. Hot-swappable hard drives are
supplied in hot-swappable hard drive carriers that t in the hard drive slots.
Removing a 2.5-inch hard drive blank
Prerequisites
CAUTION: Many repairs may only be done by a certied service technician. You should only perform troubleshooting and
simple repairs as authorized in your product documentation, or as directed by the online or telephone service and support
team. Damage due to servicing that is not authorized by Dell is not covered by your warranty. Read and follow the safety
instructions that are shipped with your product.
CAUTION: To maintain proper system cooling, all empty hard drive slots must have hard drive blanks installed.
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions section.
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Dell PowerEdge R230 Specifications

General

HDD speed	7200 RPM
RAID levels	0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50
RAID support	Yes
HDD interface	Serial ATA III
SSD interface	Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Optical drive type	DVD±RW
Supported HDD sizes	3.5 \
Total storage capacity	1000 GB
Maximum storage capacity	- TB
Number of HDDs installed	1
Number of HDDs supported	4
Processor cache	8 MB
Processor model	E3-1220V6
System bus rate	8 GT/s
Processor socket	LGA 1151 (Socket H4)
Motherboard chipset	Intel® C236
Processor frequency	3 GHz
Processor cache type	Smart Cache
Processor lithography	14 nm
Processor manufacturer	Intel
Processor boost frequency	3.5 GHz
Compatible processor series	Intel Celeron, Intel Pentium
Maximum number of SMP processors	11
Memory slots	4x DIMM
Internal memory	8 GB
Memory clock speed	2400 MHz
Internal memory type	DDR4-SDRAM
Maximum internal memory	64 GB
Memory layout (slots x size)	1 x 8 GB
Performance management	IPMI 2.0, Dell OpenManage
Power supply	250 W
Power supply input frequency	50 - 60 Hz
Redundant power supply (RPS) support	-
Operating system installed	No
Compatible operating systems	Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64) Red Hat Enterprise Linux VMware Vsphere 2015 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Chassis type	Rack (1U)
LAN controller	Broadcom BCM5720
Cabling technology	10/100/1000Base-T(X)
Ethernet interface type	Gigabit Ethernet
USB 2.0 ports quantity	2
Operating altitude	0 - 3048 m
Non-operating altitude	0 - 12000 m
Storage temperature (T-T)	-40 - 65 °C
Operating temperature (T-T)	10 - 35 °C
Storage relative humidity (H-H)	5 - 95 %
Operating relative humidity (H-H)	10 - 80 %
Dell E-Value Code	PER230_EL0002A_Q1FY18_FG0010_BTP

Weight and Dimensions

Depth	495 mm
Width	434 mm
Height	42.8 mm
Weight	8770 g