Dell EMC PowerEdge T150, T350, R250, and R350 Intel Xeon E-2300 Servers 

Overview :

Stepping in at the entry point of Dell EMC’s extensive range of rack servers, the PowerEdge R250 aims to offer SMBs an affordable solution that can handle a wide range of business applications. It packs a lot into its short-depth 1U chassis, bringing Xeon E-2300 processing power to the table along with a big helping of fast memory, plenty of storage options, and room to grow.

Prices start at £950, which gets you a basic dual-core 3.5GHz Intel Pentium G6405T CPU partnered with 8GB of DDR4 memory. Our review system is a lot more powerful, as the price includes a quad-core 3.1GHz Xeon E-2324G CPU and 32GB of memory, which can be boosted to 128GB for memory-hungry workloads.

The R250 is restricted to a maximum of four front drive bays, but you can choose from LFF and SFF hard disks and SSDs, with the backplane in our system adding hot-swap capabilities. It was also equipped with an HBA355i PCIe adapter card, which doesn’t provide RAID but adds support for SAS3 storage.

If you want RAID there are plenty of choices, with the server supporting most of Dell EMC’s PERC controllers. The entry-level H345 offers stripes and mirrors for SATA and SAS devices, while the top-dog H755 brings RAID5 and 6 into the equation.

You can keep all the drive bays for storage duties by adding Dell EMC’s boot-optimized storage solution (BOSS) S1 card, which has two M.2 SATA SSD slots and can be used as a mirrored array for running an operating system. It will cost you a PCIe slot, though, as the R250 doesn’t support the BOSS S2 version used by the higher-end PowerEdge servers that present two removable M.2 carriers at the rear for easier access.

Specifications :

• Brand: Dell
• Product Line: PowerEdge
• Product Type: Rackmount Server
• Form Factor: 1U Rack
• Processors: 1x Intel Xeon E-2300 series processor
• Memory: Up to 128GB DDR4 3200 MT/s ECC UDIMM (4 DIMM slots)
• Hard Drives: Up to 4x 3.5" SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) drives
• Maximum Internal Storage: 4x 3.5" - Up to 80TB (NL-SAS/SATA) / 30.72TB (SSD)
• I/O Slots: 2 x PCIe Gen 4.0 slots