If you are hunting for a server that will give
you peace of mind then look no further. For the Dell PowerEdge R910 is the one
you may be looking for. This is one hell of a server machine and once you have
considered the positives of this machine you are bound to get it for your
business.
Let us get the positives and features of the
PowerEdge R910:
- Firstly, the chassis is of 4U rack and inside it is housed 4 x 2GHz X7550 Intel Xeon processors.
- The processor is ably supported by a massive 128 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 RAM.
- For storage purposes there are 2 x 1 GB SD cards as well as 4 x 73 GB Dell hard drives. These drives can write at a speed of about 6GB/sec and are hot swappable. The RAID controller has Dell PERC H700 with 512 MB of cache memory.
- It supports RAIDO, 1, 10, 5 and 6 arrays.
- There are 7 x PCI-e slots through it can be expanded. For network support there are 4 x Gigabit I/O ports,
- It has 4 x 1100W hot plug power supply.
Those were some impressive features that would
surely get someone’s attention. Now let us have a look at the performances of
the machine:
- The PowerEdge 910 performs faster than most of its competitors with the presence of Xeon 7500 Nehalem processors. In fact it is the first server to be equipped with the Xeon 7500 processors.
- It is able to monitor its performance, report any failure and make attempts to recover from the hardware faults. This is absolutely not possible in lower end server machines and thus this monster can be used in a lot of applications.
- Though this machine can be used for a variety of purposes, it is primarily aimed at enterprises businesses and those that deal with data as a whole. It thus offers a better per watt performance than most other machines.
- As the machine has the Xeon 7500 processor and the possible expansion of memory of up to 1 TB, there is absolutely no problem with virtualization.
- The inside design of the machine has been made easy for anyone to access the key components. In support of this the machine does not require any sort of tools for maintenance.
- Each unit goes through tough validation and testing to maintain quality standards.
- The manufacturer has input certain features that have been done keeping the customer in mind. It is for this that there are dual internal SD modules providing failover.
