- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Dell PowerEdge R430 system overview
- Supported configurations for the PowerEdge R430 system
- Front panel
- Back panel features
- Diagnostic indicators
- Locating service tag of your system
- Documentation resources
- Technical specifications
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Pre-operating system management applications
- Options to manage the pre-operating system applications
- System Setup
- Viewing System Setup
- System Setup details
- System BIOS
- Viewing System BIOS
- System BIOS Settings details
- Boot Settings
- Network Settings
- System Security
- System Information
- Memory Settings
- Processor Settings
- SATA Settings
- Integrated Devices
- Serial Communication
- System Profile Settings
- Miscellaneous Settings
- iDRAC Settings utility
- Device Settings
- Dell Lifecycle Controller
- Boot Manager
- PXE boot
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Front bezel (optional)
- System cover
- Inside the system
- Cooling shroud
- System memory
- Hard drives
- Removing a 2.5-inch hard drive blank
- Installing a 2.5-inch hard drive blank
- Removing a 3.5-inch hard drive blank
- Installing a 3.5-inch hard drive blank
- Removing a 3.5-inch cabled hard drive carrier
- Installing a 3.5-inch cabled hard drive carrier
- Removing a hot swappable hard drive carrier
- Installing a hot swappable hard drive carrier
- Removing a 3.5-inch hot swappable hard drive adapter from a 3.5-inch hot swappable hard drive carrier
- Installing a 3.5-inch hard drive adapter into a hot swap hard drive carrier
- Removing a 2.5-inch hard drive from a 3.5-inch hard drive adapter
- Installing a 2.5-inch hard drive into a 3.5-inch hard drive adapter
- Removing a hard drive or a solid state drive from a hard drive carrier
- Installing a hard drive or solid state drives into a hard drive carrier
- Optical drive (optional)
- Cooling fans
- Internal USB memory key (optional)
- Expansion cards and expansion card riser
- iDRAC port card (optional)
- SD vFlash card (optional)
- Internal dual SD module (optional)
- Integrated storage controller card
- Processors and heat sinks
- Power supply units
- System battery
- Hard-drive backplane
- Control panel
- Power interposer board
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Using system diagnostics
- Jumpers and connectors
- Troubleshooting your system
- Troubleshooting system startup failure
- Troubleshooting external connections
- Troubleshooting the video subsystem
- Troubleshooting a USB device
- Troubleshooting a serial input and output device
- Troubleshooting a NIC
- Troubleshooting a wet system
- Troubleshooting a damaged system
- Troubleshooting the system battery
- Troubleshooting power supply units
- Troubleshooting cooling problems
- Troubleshooting cooling fans
- Troubleshooting system memory
- Troubleshooting an internal USB key
- Troubleshooting a micro SD card
- Troubleshooting an optical drive
- Troubleshooting a drive or SSD
- Troubleshooting a storage controller
- Troubleshooting expansion cards
- Troubleshooting processors
- System messages
- Getting help
Dell PowerEdge R430 Owner's Manual
Hard drives
Depending
on the configuration, your system supports one of the following:
- Four hard-drive systems
- Up to four 3.5-inch cabled hard drives, or
- Up to four 3.5-inch hot-swappable SAS hard drives, SATA hard drives, or SATA SSDs or
- Up to four 2.5-inch hot-swappable SAS hard drives, SATA hard drives, or SATA SSDs
- Eight hard-drive systems
- Up to eight 2.5-inch hot-swappable SAS hard drives, SATA hard drives, or SATA SSDs
- Ten hard-drive systems
- Up to ten 2.5-inch hot-swappable SATA hard drives or SATA SSDs
NOTE SSD/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 fit in the hard-drive slots.CAUTION Before
attempting to remove or install a hot-swappable hard drive while the
system is running, see the documentation for the storage controller
card to ensure that the host adapter is configured correctly to support
hot-swap hard drive removal and insertion.
CAUTION Do not
turn off or reboot your system while the hard drive is being formatted.
Doing so can cause a hard drive failure.
NOTE 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
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