Quick Specs
Tower server | 5U (Rack conversion kit)
Processor | Max: 10 Cores2x Intel E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2 Processors
Memory | Max: 384GB12 DDR3 UDIMM 1600Mhz
Storage | Max: 32TB4x 3.5" Cabled SAS/SATA (HDD)
Boot OptionsBoot Optimized Server Storage (BOSS)
IDSDM
Internal USB
S110 (SW RAID)
PERC H310, H710, H710P, H810, HBA330, 6Gbps SAS HBA (non-RAID)
2 x 1GbE LOM
Remote Management:iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller
PCIe Slots: 62 x16 with x16 bandwidth, 3.0, full-length, full-height
1 x8 with x4 bandwidth, 3.0, half-length, full-height
1 x8 with x4 bandwidth, 2.0, half-length, full-height
1 x8 with x4 bandwidth, 3.0, full-length, full-height
1 x8 with x1 bandwidth, 2.0, full-length, full-height
1x DW or 2x SW GPU
The Dell PowerEdge T420, a 2-socket tower server, delivers performance, expandability and reliability in a quiet office setting.
PowerEdge T420- Powered by Intel Xeon processors E5-2400
- Up to sixteen 2.5-inch or eight 3.5-inch drive capacity
- Up to twelve DIMMs with RAS
- PCIe 3.0-enabled expansion slots
- Optional internal GPU accelerators
The Dell PowerEdge T420 is a powerful and reliable 2-socket tower server that delivers performance and built-in capacity for non-disruptive growth. The T420’s acoustical profile allows it to fit unobtrusively into quiet office environments and data centers alike. This tower server is an excellent fit for general-purpose small and medium business workloads such as database, file and print sharing, retail and email. The T420 also fulfills platform needs in small offices with the growing trend of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Hot pluggability of key components, combined with leading manageability, make it an excellent server for branch offices and other remote sites where IT skills might not be present. Consistent worldwide support makes it highly appealing to multinational businesses and organizations with remote offices.
A versatile workhorse
Featuring the extensive performance of two Intel Xeon E5-2400 processors, and complemented by substantial memory capacity and broad I/O bandwidth, the T420 provides high, balanced performance and built-in room for growth. Its twelve DIMM slots and six PCIe slots provide memory density and wide I/O bandwidth to support both memory-intensive and data-intensive applications and databases. Built-in capacity for up to eight 3.5-inch or sixteen 2.5-inch hard drives accommodate data storage as your business or organization grows. These combined technology features are necessary to support consolidated and virtualized environments, a role in which the T420 also shines.
To protect your virtualized workloads, the PowerEdge T420 offers dual SD media making your hypervisors redundant and failsafe. Other reliability and availability features include hot-plug hard drives, both hardware and software RAID options, redundant fans and hot-plug power supplies.
Start building your future with PowerEdge T420, a workhorse tower server engineered to deliver performance, expandability and reliability in a quiet office setting.
Advanced I/O
Improve your I/O capabilities for data intensive tasks through PCIe expansion slots and optional internal GPU acceleration.
Versatile storage
Tailor your storage capacity to fit your needs. The PowerEdge T420 features up to 16 hot-swap drive bays to help maximize data management efficiency.
Designed to grow with you
Implement the T420’s versatile performance and efficient management as an office tower server or mount as a rack server as you grow into larger data centers.
Simplify deploying,updating,monitoring and maintaining your PowerEdge servers with the Dell OpenManage portfolio.
Outstanding efficiency and availability
Help keep your workplace efficient, your operating expenses in check and your workflow secure with the T420’s designed-in reliability, availability and serviceability features.
Flexible deployment
Easily deploy the T420 as an office-environment tower or take advantage of its rack-mount capability to move it into the data center as your business grows.
Productive performance
Help enhance office productivity with the two-socket PowerEdge T420, powered by the Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2 product families. Matching the fast and efficient processing with a dense memory footprint enables small and midsize business offices to crunch through critical business applications quickly and efficiently.
