Specifications

8 PowerEdge R420 Technical Guide
Table 3. Technical specifications
Feature
PowerEdge R420 technical specification
Form factor
1U rack
Processors
Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2 product families
Processor sockets
2 sockets
Internal interconnect
Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) link: 6.4GT/s, 7.2GT/s, 8.0GT/s
Cache
2.5MB per core with core options of 4, 6, 8, or 10
Chipset
Intel C602
Memory
1
Up to 384GB (12 DIMM slots): 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR3 up to 1600MT/s
PCIe slots
2 PCIe slots
With 2 processors:
 1 x16 slot with x16 bandwidth, 3.0, half-height, half-length
 1 x16 slot with x16 bandwidth, 3.0, full-height, half-length
With 1 processor:
 1 x8 slot with x4 bandwidth, 2.0, half-height, half-length
 1 x16 slot with x16 bandwidth, 3.0, full-height, half-length
RAID controller
Internal controllers:
PERC S110 (SW RAID)
PERC H310
PERC H710
PERC H710P
External HBAs (RAID):
PERC H810
External HBAs (non-RAID):
6Gbps SAS HBA
Hard drives
Drive bay options:
4 x 3.5” cabled drive bays
4 x 3.5” hot-plug drive bays (2.5” hybrid kit available)
8 x 2.5” hot-plug drive bays
Hot-plug hard drive options:
2.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K, 10K), SAS SSD, SATA SSD
3.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K)
Self-encrypting drives available
Cabled hard drive options:
3.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K)
Embedded NIC
Broadcom
®
5720 Dual Port 1GbE LOM