Dell PowerEdge R730 Technical Manual

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28 PowerEdge R730 and R730xd Technical Guide6 StorageThe Dell PowerEdge R730 and R730xd provide storage expandability that allows you to adapt toyour workload and operational demands. With comprehensive storage options, the R730 andR730xd offer various drive types, internal and external storage controllers, and different chassis andbackplanes for varied numbers of drives.Features such as Express Flash PCIe SSDs and DAS Cache provide vastly accelerated performanceover previous technologies. Dell Express Flash drives use PCIe lanes to connect directly to theprocessor and chipset and are easily accessible through a hot-plug drive bay (R730xd only; R730does not support Express Flash drives).Internal storageThe R730 and R730xd are available in hot-plug backplane options listed in Table 13. Note that thebackplane option must be selected at point of purchase and cannot be changed or upgraded later.Table 13. Internal storage optionsServer Storage options Storage controller optionsR73016 x 2.5” SATA, NL-SAS, SSD PERC H330, H730, H730P8 x 3.5” SATA, NL-SAS, SAS PERC H130, H330, H730, H730PR730xd118 x 1.8” SATA SSD + 8 x 3.5” SAS, SATA, NL-SAS, SSD PERC H330, H730, H730P24 x 2.5” SAS, SATA, NL-SAS, SSD, with or withoutoptional flex bay: 2 x 2.5” SAS, SATA, NL-SAS, SSD PERC H330, H730, H730P12 or 16 x 3.5” SAS, SATA, NL-SAS, with or withoutoptional flex bay: 2 x 2.5” SAS, SATA, NL-SAS, SSD PERC H330, H730, H730P1Back-accessible 2.5” drives are optional depending on configuration.Supported drivesTable 14 lists the internal drives supported by the R730 and R730xd. For the latest information onsupported hard drives, visit the R730 and R730xd pages on Dell.com.Table 14. Supported drivesFormfactor Type Speed(RPM) Capacities3.5”SATA (6Gb) 7.2K 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 6TB 4Kn, 6TB 512eNL-SAS (6Gb) 7.2K 1TB, 2TB, 4TB*, 6TB 4Kn*, 6TB 512e2.5” SAS (6Gb) 10K 300GB, 600GB, 1.2TB*, 1.8TB 512e, 1.8TB 4Kn*