The Dell PowerEdge R350 is a 1U server designed for small to medium-sized businesses. The R350 builds upon the R340 from the previous generation of servers. We will highlight some of the differences and similarities between the R350’s chassis options.
Bay Counts
There are two different bay count options and form factors to choose from for the R350 server. These options are 8 Bay SFF and 4 Bay LFF. The 8 Bay SFF options accepts up to eight 2.5” hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs. The 4 Bay LFF chassis accepts up to four 3.5” hot-swap SAS/SATA drives. 2.5” drives can be installed using a 2.5” to 3.5” adapter.
Chassis Rear and PCIe Slots
There is only one possible rear configuration for the PowerEdge R350. The rear includes two low-profile PCIe slots, a serial connector, VGA port, two 1GbE RJ45 Ethernet ports, a dedicated RJ45 iDRAC port, a USB 2.0 port, a USB 3.2 Gen 1 port, a system ID button, CMA jack, two BOSS riser slots, and two hot-swap power supply bays.