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System features and generational
comparison
The following table shows the comparison between the PowerEdge R250 with the PowerEdge R240.
Table 2. Features comparison
Feature PowerEdge R250 PowerEdge R240
Processor One Intel
®
Xeon E-2300 series
processor with up to 8 cores per
processor
Coffee Lake-S E3-1200 V6 series.
Pentium and Celeron up to 95 W
Memory
● 4 DDR4 DIMM slots, supports
UDIMM 128 GB max, speeds up to
3200 MT/s
NOTE: For Pentium processor,
maximum memory supported is
2666 MT/s
● Supports unregistered ECC DDR4
DIMMs only
● 4 DDR4 DIMM slots, memory support
8,16 GB, DIMM speed up to 2666
MT/s
● Supports unregistered ECC DDR4
DIMMs only
Storage drives
● Up to 4 x 3.5-inch hot-plug SAS/
SATA (HDD/SSD) max 30.72 TB
● Up to 4 x 3.5-inch cabled SAS/SATA
(HDD/SSD) max 30.72 TB
● 2 x 3.5-inch cabled SAS/SATA drives
● Up to 4 x 3.5-inch hot-plug SAS/
SATA/ SSD
● Up to 4 x 3.5-inch cabled SAS/
SATA/ SSD
● Up to 2 x 3.5-inch cabled SAS/
SATA/ SSD
● Max 56 TB for 4 HDD configuration
Storage controllers
Internal Controllers
● PERC H345, HBA355i, H755, H355
External Controllers
● HBA355e
Software RAID
● S150
Internal Controllers
● PERC H330, H730p, HBA330
External Controllers
● 12 Gbps SAS HBA
Software RAID
● S140
PCIe slots PCI Express® (PCIe)4.0 expansion slots 2 x PCIe Gen 3 slots
Embedded NIC (LOM) Onboard LOM 1GbE x2 2 x 1GbE LOM
Networking options (OCP 3.0) NA NA
I/O ports
Front Ports
● 1 x iDRAC Direct (Micro-AB USB)
port
● 1 x USB 2.0
Rear Ports
● 1 x USB 2.0
● 1 x USB 3.0
● 1 x VGA
● 1 x Serial
Front Ports
● 1 x Dedicated iDRAC direct micro-
USB
● 1 x USB 2.0
Rear Ports
● 1 x Serial
● 2 x USB 3.0
● 1 x VGA
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