25 PowerEdge T420 Technical Guide
3Gb/s SATA software RAID
controller that supports up
to 4 physical disks or 8
virtual disks
Supports up to 4
hot-plug SATA drives ,
no expansion, Microsoft
Windows only
System
board-
embedded
SATA
Optical drive
The T420 hot-plug chassis supports up to three media bays through one of the following options:
Up to two SATA half-height DVD-ROM or DVD R/W drive + one SAS interface tape drive
Up to one SATA half-height DVD-ROM or DVD R/W drive + one internal RD1000 drive + one SAS
interface tape drive
The T420 cabled chassis supports up to two media bays through one of the following options:
Up to two SATA half-height DVD-ROM or DVD R/W drive
Up to one SATA half-height DVD-ROM or DVD R/W drive + one internal RD1000 drive/or SAS
interface tape drive
Up to one internal RD1000 drive + one SAS interface tape drive
Tape drive
The T420 supports the external storage device types listed in Table 14. For additional information,
visit Dell.com/Storage.
Table 14. Supported external storage
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