Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell PowerEdge R430 Owner's Manual
- 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
Table 18. Dimensions of the Dell PowerEdge R430 system
X Xa Y Z (with
bezel)
Z (without
bezel)
Za (with
bezel)
Za (without
bezel)
Zb
482.4 mm
(18.99
inches)
434.0 mm
(17.08
inches)
42.8 mm
(1.68
inches)
677.3 mm
(26.66
inches)
662.4 mm
(264.07
inches)
35.0 mm
(1.37 inches)
20.1 mm
(0.79
inches)
642.3 mm
(25.28
inches)
Chassis weight
This section describes the weight of the system.
Table 19. Chassis weight
System Maximum weight (with all hard drives/SSDs)
PowerEdge R430 19.9 kg (43.87 lb)
Processor specifications
The PowerEdge R430 system supports up to two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 or Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 product family processors.
PSU specifications
The PowerEdge R430 system supports up to two AC redundant power supply units (PSUs) and a single AC cabled PSU.
Table 20. PSU specifications
PSU Class Heat dissipation
(maximum)
Frequen
cy
Voltage Current
550 W AC Platinum 2107 BTU/hr 50/60
Hz
100–240 V AC,
autoranging
7.4 A-3.7 A
450 W AC Bronze 1871 BTU/hr 50/60
Hz
100–240 V AC,
autoranging
6.5 A-3.5 A
NOTE: Heat dissipation is calculated using the PSU wattage rating.
NOTE: This system is also designed to connect to the IT power systems with a phase-to-phase voltage not exceeding 230
V.
System battery specifications
The PowerEdge R430 system supports 3 V CR2032 Lithium coin cell system battery.
Expansion bus specifications
The PowerEdge R430 system supports PCI express (PCIe) Generation 2 and 3 expansion cards, which need to be installed on
the system board using expansion card risers. This system supports two types of expansion card risers. The following table
provides the expansion card riser specifications:
Table 21. Expansion card riser specifications
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