NVMe for PowerEdge R730xd

Hello, I hope this vid helps.

https://dell.to/3tczO9B

https://dell.to/3DRJBqq

up to 4 NVMe Express Flash PCIe

Bus PCIe 3.0  slot

• You can’t us U.2 I’m afraid.

>> You can’t us U.2 I’m afraid.

Strange. The page I linked to and the video you linked to both say that U.2 is possible. And the support person from Dell (who emailed me after I sent my question) says that U.2 is possible as well.

What confuses me, though, is whether my two R730xd's are "natively" enabled for U.2 in slots 20-23. The page I linked to suggests that any R730xd has slots 20-23 enabled for U.2. But the Dell person who emailed me says that one of my R730xd will allow it (but only in two of the slots 20-23), but that it won't work in the other R730xd.

I can't get any straight answers from Dell. Kind of frustrating, after I paid an arm and a leg for an extension on my service contract.

R730xd support upto four 2.5 inch U.2 NVMe drives on X24 backplane. You can refer below link for supported configuration

https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/poweredge-r730xd/r730xd_ompublication/hard-drive-backplane?guid=guid-819d25ec-20c8-4c4b-9ad0-390ef336adff&lang=en-us 

You can refer below link (Figure 4) for cabling required for NVMe drives

https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/poweredge-r730xd/r730xd_ompublication/removing-the-hard-drive-backplane?guid=guid-ad50f394-cb7b-48b7-be67-08bb40b4d60f&lang=en-us 

@CorpusProf, my sincere apologies for the confusion. Shine is correct. Maybe this could also help your understanding: https://dell.to/3NTKpzO