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The Dell PowerEdge T310 is the company’s latest single-socket tower server. Along with a single Intel Xeon 3400 Series quad-core CPU, the Intel 3420 chipset-based PowerEdge T310 includes up to 32GB of registered (RDIMM) or up to 8GB of unregistered (UDIMM) DDR3 memory, and up to four 3.5″ cabled or hot-swap SAS or SATA hard drives for a maximum of 4TB of internal storage. The system has an onboard SATA controller without RAID functionality, but there’s a variety of additional storage controllers supporting up to RAID 10. The basic network adapter is an embedded dual Gigabit NIC, which can be accompanied by various single-, dual-, or quad- port Gigabit cards. For server management, customers can use the baseboard management controller and one of optional iDRAC6 controllers. Dell’s T310 features the Matrox G200eW GPU, a DVD drive, optional PowerVault tape or hard drives for backups, and five PCIe Gen. 2 slots: two x8 slots (one with x16 connector), a x4 slot (with x8 connector), and two x1 slots. Power supply options include a redundant 400W and a non-redundant 375W unit. On the front of the chassis, the 20.5 inches deep tower server has an optional LCD screen for system monitoring. The new PowerEdge comes without operating system or with one of Windows Server, Windows Essential Business Server, and Small Business Server editions, as well as with optional Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The starting price for the Dell PowerEdge T310 is $949, with the 3Yr Basic Hardware Warranty included. The server can be purchased at dell.com.

The Dell PowerEdge T710 is the company’s new dual-socket tower server. The virtualization oriented T710 is based on the Intel 5520 chipset and supports up to two quad-core or dual-core Intel Xeon 5500 series processors. It has 18 DIMM slots for up to 144GB of ECC DDR3 memory and supports 16 2.5-inch or 8 3.5-inch hot-plug hard drives, depending on customer’s choice. The 5U chassis, mountable in 19″ racks, also includes two media bays for optical drives or tape backup units, and two power supplies with optional redundancy. Integrated storage controller choices include SAS 6/iR or PERC 6/i SAS RAID, but there’s also a variety of additional HDD controllers. Customers can also choose between various host bus controller, management card, and network adapter options. Dell’s T710 has 6 PCI Express 2.0 slots and the integrated Matrox G200 video chip, and offers an interactive LCD on the front of the server for system health monitoring, alerts and control of basic management configuration. Regarding software, the PowerEdge T710 ships without OS or with one of Windows Sever, SUSE Linux, or Red Hat Linux editions, with VMware or Citrix virtualization software, and with various optional management and backup applications. The Dell PowerEdge T710 currently starts at $1,199 at the official Dell Small Business website.

Hewlett-Packard has released recently the HP ProLiant ML150 G6 Server series, a new 5U tower 2-socket system based on Intel’s new Nehalem CPU microarchitecture. When compared to the Intel 5100 chipset-based ProLiant ML150 G5, the ML150 G6 (Generation 6) with the Intel 5500 chipset features newer Intel Xeon dual- or quad-core processors with integrated memory controllers, support for up to 48GB of DDR3 memory instead of up to 16GB DDR2, new controller and adapter options, a new chassis design, and other innovations.