Dell Storage NX3230

Features

Dell Storage NX3230

Operating system

Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition

File access protocols

CIFS, NFS, FTP, SMB3.0, SMB Direct (RDMA)

Block access protocols

Microsoft iSCSI target

Form factor

2U rack-mount system

Processors

Intel® Xeon® E5-2609 v3 1.9GHz, 15M Cache, 85W or Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 2.4GHz, 20M Cache, 85W

Number of drives

Up to twelve 3.5” drives for a total of 72TB* using 6TB HDDs

Drive types and capacities

Near-line SAS or SATA hard drives (SAS 10K and 15K): 1.2TB and 600GB

(NL SAS 7.2k): 2TB, 4TB & 6TB

External expansion

PowerVault™, EqualLogic and Compellent controllers and arrays

RAID

Standard options: OS HDDs (on rear 2.5” HDDs) is always RAID1. Data HDDs can be configured from factory in RAID5 or RAID6 (minimum 4 HDDs). The internal PERC can support additional customer configurable RAID options.

Custom options: As supported by internal PERC H730 (0,1,5,6,10,50,60)

Controller: PERC H730 (internal HDDs)

Chassis dimensions

H: 8.73 cm (3.44 in.) x W: 44.40 cm (17.49 in.) x D (excludes bezel): 68.40 cm (26.92 in.)

Maximum weight: 27.6 kg (60.84 lb)

Power

Redundant and non-redundant hot-plug 750W and 1100W PSU options

Fans

Standard redundant cooling

Availability

Hot-plug hard drives, hot-plug redundant power, hot-plug redundant cooling, ECC memory

Management

Dell OpenManage™ featuring Dell Management Console or Windows Server Management interface iDRAC8 Express or Enterprise

Data protection features

Replication (DFS-R), Snapshots (VSS)

Rack support

ReadyRails™ II sliding rails for tool-less mounting in 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round holes or tooled

mounting in 4-post threaded hole racks, with support for optional toolless cable management arm

Slots

Six PCIe 3.0 slots (four with x16 bandwidth and two with x8 bandwidth)