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The use of 1333 MHz SO DIMM memory is recommended for this system. 1 GB, 2GB, or 4GB memory Supports up to 8GB maximum memory 2GB, 4GB Intel Turbo Memory (selected models). When I choose RAM for my machines, I try to buy certified modules. I plan to buy Kingston modules for which Kingston certifies the compatibility with the T420s. The reference is KCP313SD8/8 (you can use two of those to have 16 Gb in your Thinkpad).

Help deliver robust performance, scalability and reliability to your organization with the ample power, memory and I/O bandwidth of the PowerEdge™ T420 tower.

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PowerEdge T420 Tower ServerPowerEdge
  • Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2 product families
    Processor Sockets:
    2
    Internal Interconnect:
    Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) link: 6.4GT/s; 7.2GT/s; 8.0 GT/s
    Cache:
    2.5MB per core; core options: 4, 6, 8, 10
  • Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012
    Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, x64 (includes Hyper-V®)
    Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
    Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
    Virtualization options:
    Citrix® XenServer®
    VMware® vSphere® ESXi ™
    Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization®
  • Up to 384GB (12 DIMM slots) 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR3 up to 1600MT/s
  • Choose from four 3.5” cabled, eight 3.5” hot-plug, or sixteen 2.5” hot-plug drive bays
  • Form factor:
    Tower (5U rackable)
    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 tool-less cable management arm (for rackable chassis model only)
  • Optional high-efficiency, hot-plug, redundant power supplies; hot-plug drive bays; TPM; dual internal SD support; redundant fans; optional bezel; luggage tag; ECC memory; optional interactive LCD screen; extended thermal support; ENERGY STAR® compliant; switch independent partitioning
  • Power Supply:
    Titanium efficiency, hot-plug, redundant 750W power supply
    Platinum efficiency, hot-plug redundant 750W or 1100W power supplies
    Auto-ranging power supplies
  • Internal controllers:
    PERC S110 (SW RAID)
    PERC H310
    PERC H710
    PERC H710P
    External HBAs (RAID):
    PERC H810
    External HBAs (non-RAID):
    6Gbps SAS HBA
  • Intel C602
  • Maximum Internal Storage:
    Up to 32TB

    Hard Drives:

    Hot-plug hard drive options:
    2.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K, 10K), SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS 512n (15K)
    3.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K)
    Self-encrypting drives available

    Cabled hard drive options:
    3.5” SATA, nearline SAS, SAS (15K)
  • 6 PCIe slots:
    Two x16 slot s with x16 bandwidth, 3.0, full-length, full-height
    One x8 slot with x4 bandwidth, 3.0, half-length, full-height
    One x8 slot with x4 bandwidth, 2.0, half-length, full-height
    One x8 slot with x4 bandwidth, 3.0, full-length, full-height
    One x8 slot with x1 bandwidth, 2.0, full-length, full-height

  • Embedded NIC:
    Broadcom® 5720 GbE Dual Port 1Gb LOM

    I/O adapter options:

    1Gb Ethernet:
    Broadcom 5720 Dual Port 1Gb NIC
    Broadcom 5719 Quad Port 1Gb NIC
    Intel I350 Dual Port 1Gb stand-up adapter
    Intel I350 Quad Port 1Gb stand-up adapter
    10Gb Converged Ethernet:
    Brocade® BR1020 Dual Port 10Gb CNA
    Qlogic® QLE8262 Dual Port 10Gb DA/SFP+
    Broadcom 57810S Dual Port 10Gb Base-T CNA
    Broadcom 57810S Dual Port 10Gb DA/SFP+ CNA
    10Gb Ethernet:
    Intel X520 Dual Port 10Gb DA/SFP+ server adapter
    Intel X540 Dual Port 10Gb Base-T adapter
    FC8/FC4 HBA:
    QLogic QLE2460 4Gb Single Port FC HBA
    QLogic QLE2462 4Gb Dual Port FC HBA
    QLogic QLE2560 8Gb Single Port FC HBA
    OLogic QLE2562 8Gb Dual Port FC HBA
    Emulex® LPe-12000-E 8Gb Single Port FC HBA
    Emulex LPe-12002-E 8Gb Dual Port FC HBA
    Brocade 815 8Gb Single Port FC HBA
    Brocade 825 8Gb Dual Port FC HBA
  • Remote Management:
    Basic management (default)
    iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller
    iDRAC7 Express (upgrade option) or iDRAC7 Enterprise (upgrade option)
    8GB or 16GB vFlash media (upgrade options)
    Systems Management:
    IPMI 2.0 compliant
    OpenManage™ Essentials
    OpenManage Power Center
    Dell OpenManage Connections:
    • OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft® System Center
    • Dell plug-in for VMware® vCenter®
    • HP Operations Manager, IBM Tivoli® Netcool®, and CA Network and Systems Management (NSM)
  • Rack Support:
    ReadyRails™ sliding rails with optional cable management arm for 4-post racks (optional adapter brackets required for threaded hole racks; for rackable chassis model only)
  • Product Safety, EMC and Environmental Datasheets
    Dell Regulatory Compliance Home Page
    Dell and the EnvironmentENERGY STAR®
    The Dell PowerEdge T420 has earned the ENERGY STAR® Enterprise Server designation.
    ENERGY STAR and the ENERGY STAR mark are registered U.S. marks, Click here (In English).

Balanced processing, memory and I/O

Start building your future with PowerEdge T420, a workhorse tower server engineered to deliver performance, expandability and reliability in a quiet office setting.

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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.
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.
Intelligent systems management
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.

The new generation PowerEdge experience

Make IT the engine for your business success. The newest generation of PowerEdge™ family is engineered with the right combination of features and performance scalability to handle tough workloads for both large and small data center environments.

Improve operational efficiency with enhanced systems management

Streamline operations and help boost productivity to get the most out of every dollar spent. Manage your Dell™ PowerEdge servers in complex IT environments by automating the most essential server life cycle management tasks: deploy, update, monitor and maintain. For more information, visit dell.com/openmanage.

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Global Services and Support

Dell™ Services can help reduce IT complexity, lower costs and eliminate inefficiencies by making IT and business solutions work harder for you. The Dell™ Services team takes a holistic view of your needs and designs solutions for your environment and business objectives while using established delivery methods, local talent and in-depth domain knowledge to help you lower your total cost of ownership.
Dell offers a wide range of professional services to simplify the assessment, design, implementation, management and maintenance of your IT environment and to help you transition from platform to platform.
Dell ProSupport
Dell ProSupport offers a suite of support services that enable you to choose support models based on how you use technology and where you want to allocate resources. We recommend Dell ProSupport Plus withSupportAssist for mission-critical systems or Dell ProSupport for premium hardware and software support for your PowerEdge solution. For hyper-scale data centers, we also offer ProSupport Flex for Data Center. Contact your Dell representative today for more information*.
Dell Enterprise Deployment Services
ProDeploy Enterprise Suite* offers a full range of deployment services and professional certifications to help you get more out of your technology starting on day one. Choose ProDeploy Plus for the most complete deployment offer available in the market, ProDeploy for expert configuration and installations, or Basic Deployment for worry-free hardware installations.
Dell Training Services
Dell Education Services offers PowerEdge Server training courses designed to help you achieve more with your hardware investment. The curriculum is designed in conjunction with the server development team, as well as Dell’s technical support team, to ensure that the training delivers the information and practical, hands-on skills you and your team need to confidently deploy, manage and maintain your Dell Server solution. To learn more or register for a class today, click here.
Dell OpenManage Systems Management portfolio

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Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions
You face an expanding set of challenges for provisioning, managing and supporting end-user computing across your enterprise. Your IT team is not growing, but support requirements are more complex as you plan how best to migrate and update client systems, and secure new “smart” mobile devices.
With Dell DVS you can create a centralized end-user computing environment that streamlines desktop management and reduces maintenance burden on your IT staff. Now you can focus on important projects to improve IT services. Dell DVS solutions are completely integrated and tested solutions that are powered by advanced Dell PowerEdge rack and blade servers.

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Dell’s purpose-built DVS solutions combine the performance, memory capacity and embedded hypervisor options in Dell PowerEdge servers with desktop virtualization software in optimized configurations. DVS solutions simplify deployments and accelerate your time-to-value. Dell DVS solutions deliver:
Storage Options
With Dell Compellent, Dell EqualLogic and Dell PowerVault, we have created a comprehensive and innovative portfolio of storage products, all of which are easy to deploy, manage and grow. Whether you use network attached storage (NAS), direct attached storage (DAS), internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel (FC), Dell has a product that can meet your business needs and reduce the cost and complexity of storage.
The Value of Dell Storage:
Dell’s open, standards-based solutions let customers of all sizes integrate new technologies without sacrificing performance or their existing IT investments.
Direct-Attached Storage:
The Dell PowerVault MD storage family offers easy and economical expansion for Dell PowerEdge servers enabling high availability and scalability for demanding business applications.
Disk-to-Disk Backup
Due to expanding volumes of data that must be backed up and protected along with shrinking backup windows, many IT departments have moved to or added disk-based backups.
Network-Attached Storage
NAS is a specialized storage server with its own IP address that is made available to multiple clients and servers on a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN).
Object-Based Storage
The Dell DX Object Storage Platform is designed to intelligently access, store, protect and distribute fixed digital content.
Storage Area Network
A storage area network (SAN) is a network of shared storage devices, such as disk storage arrays and tape automation
Tape Backup
Considered the first and last line of defense against data loss, tape and removable disks can be used for long-term data storage and backup.
Unified Storage
Unified Storage is a term that describes the ability to manage both file- and block-level data.