Dell 13th Gen Servers Announced
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The latest PowerEdge R730 servers have been announced
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Supports the Intel Haswell procs that Intel announced today.
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DDR4 memory.
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R730xd has front and rear drive bays. First server with 1.8" drive bays.
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Three drive configs on the xd:
- 24 2.5" front & 2x 2.5" rear
- 12 3.5" front, 4 2.5" internal and 2 2.5" rear
- 18 1.8" front, 8 3.5" front and 2 2.5" rear
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PERC 9 drops LSI CacheCade in favor of a Sandisk FlashSoft solution.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Three drive configs on the xd:
- 24 2.5" front & 2x 2.5" rear
- 12 3.5" front, 4 2.5" internal and 2 2.5" rear
- 18 1.8" front, 8 3.5" front and 2 2.5" rear
Dang that's a lot more than the older Power Edges used to take.
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Do these servers have real RAID 10?
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Looks like it's because the are orientating the hard drives vertical to get more in the chassis.
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I think with the GPU stuff they might be trying to target some of the VDI market.
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@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The latest PowerEdge R730 servers have been announced
I still like HP.
Meh. Dells warranty support is some of the best out there IMO.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Looks like it's because the are orientating the hard drives vertical to get more in the chassis.
They were verticals in the 24 drive R720xd too.
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@scottalanmiller said:
R730xd has front and rear drive bays. First server with 1.8" drive bays.
Jeez - 1.8" guess I need to do some reading.. I hadn't seen those yet.
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1.8" are used for SSDs. The mSATA format. The Drobo 5D uses one.
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@scottalanmiller did they say if they will have real RAID 10?
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Looks like a pretty good upgrade. That change in caching worries me a bit, though.
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@technobabble said:
@scottalanmiller did they say if they will have real RAID 10?
LSI controllers are always RAID 100. Just set the span size to two for RAID 10.
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@scottalanmiller Thanks! I just read your RAID 100 article the other day.
