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Table 18 details the acoustical performance for the R320.
Table 18. Acoustical performance
Configuration
(23 ± 2°C
ambient)
Typical
x4 hot-plug
HDD chassis
3 x 3.5“
300GB
SATA
(7.2K)
1 x
Broadcom
Dual Port
1GbE
1 x PERC
H310 mini
Feature rich
x8 hot-plug
HDD chassis
1 x Intel
Quad Port
10GbE
1 x PERC
H710 mini
1
L
WA
-UL is the upper limit sound power levels (L
WA
) calculated per section 4.4.1 of ISO 9296 (1988) and measured in
accordance to ISO 7779 (2010).
2
L
pA
is A-weighted sound pressure level at front bystander position calculated per section 4.3 of ISO 9296 (1988) and
measured in accordance with ISO 7779 (2010) Section 8.6.2. The system is placed inside rack in 75 cm height.
3
Prominent tone: Criteria of D.6 and D.11 of ECMA-74 11th ed. (2010) are followed to determine if discrete tones are
prominent. The system is placed inside rack in 75 cm height and acoustic transducer, binaural head, is at front bystander
position; reference ISO 7779 (2010) Section 8.6.2.
4
Idle: Reference ISO 7779 (2010) definition 3.1.7; system is running in its operating system but no other specific activity.
5
Stress: An operating mode per ISO 7779 (2010) definition 3.1.6. The software SPECPower at 50% is activated to stress the
processors and DIMM.
For more information on Dell’s acoustical design, see the Dell Enterprise Acoustics white paper.