Owners Manual

RAID controller specifications

The PowerEdge M830 system supports PERC H330, PERC H730, and PERC H730P controllers.

Drive specifications

Hard drives

The PowerEdge M830 system supports:

• Up to four 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/PCIe SSDs or SAS/SATA hard drives

• Up to twelve 1.8-inch SAS SSDs

Optical drives

The PowerEdge M830 system supports external optional USB DVD optical drive.

NOTE: DVD devices support only data.

Flash drive

The PowerEdge M830 system supports:

• Internal optional USB

• Internal optional SD card

• Optional vFlash card (with integrated iDRAC Enterprise)

Ports and connectors specifications

USB ports

The PowerEdge M830 system supports:

• One 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant and one 9-pin, USB 3.0-compliant on the front panel

• Internal two 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant

SD cards

The PowerEdge M830 system supports two internal SD cards dedicated for the hypervisor.

NOTE: One SD card is dedicated for future vFlash support.

PCIe mezzanine card specification

The PowerEdge M830 system supports four PCIe x16 Gen 3 slots mezzanine cards.