Dell E23S Series owner manual Connectors Back, Front

Drives

Twenty four or sixteen plus eight hard-drive systems

Twenty four hard-drive systems (SAS-3 (12Gb/s))

Performance Mode (split-capable)

•3Gb/s and 6Gb/s on SATA drives.

NOTE: With single Unified mode daughter card and PERC 9 card the hard-drives are located in hard-drive slots 0 through 24 (bay 1).

NOTE: With two Performance mode daughter cards and two PERC 9 cards the hard-drives are located in hard-drive slots 0 through 11(bay 1) and 0 through 11(bay 2)

Up to sixteen 2.5 inch, internal, hot-swappable SAS drives and up to eight Dell PowerEdge Express Flash devices (PCIe SSDs) hard drives in hard-drive slots 0 through 4 (bay 1), 0 through 4 (bay 2), and 0 through 15 (bay 3) for SAS/SATA with 2 PCIe Extender Cards, one Unified Mode Daughter Card, and one PERC 9 Card.

NOTE: Performance mode daughter cards (hard-drive slots 0 through 7 on SAS/SATA) are not supported.

Up to twenty four 2.5 inch, internal, hot-swappable SAS hard drives.

NOTE: When the backplane is NOT in the split mode with single internal PERC, the maximum number of SATA/SSDs are 12 in the right bay (hard drives slots 12 through 23).

Twenty four or sixteen plus eight hard-drive systems (SATA SSD)

Optical drive

Up to sixteen 2.5 inch, internal, hot-swappable SATA drives and up to eight Dell PowerEdge Express Flash devices (PCIe SSDs) hard drives in hard-drive slots 0 through 4 (bay 1), 0 through 4 (bay 2), and 8 through 15 (bay 3) for SAS/SATA.

One optional SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD+/-RW drive.

Connectors

Back

NIC	Four RJ-45 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
Serial	9-pin, DTE, 16550-compatible
USB	Two 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant
Video	15-pin VGA
iDRAC7	One RJ-45 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
Front
USB	Two 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant
Video	15-pin VGA
External vFlash card	vFlash memory card slot

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