System Upgrade Options
  Perc 4/eDC raid controller PCI-E $499
  Remote Access Card,  PowerEdge 2950 $ 149
  Perc 5/e Raid controller PCI-E $ 499
  Perc 6/i Raid controller PCI-E $ 349
  36 gig 15K SAS 3.5" drive $ 129
73 gig 10K SAS3.5" drive $ 179
73 gig 15K SAS3.5" drive $ 249
146 gig 10K SAS 3.5" drive $ out
146 gig 15K SAS3.5" drive $ 399
300 gig 10K SAS3.5" drive $ 399
  400 gig 10K SAS 3.5" drive $ 599
  300 gig 15K SAS 3.5" drive $ 599
  73 gig 10K SAS 2.5" drive $   99
  73 gig 15K SAS 2.5" drive $   149
  146 gig 10K SAS 2.5" drive $   199
PC2-5300F
    512 MB $  39
    1 Gb $  59
  2 Gb $ 119
  4 Gb $ 399
  4-Post Rail Kit
Combo Rapid/Versa		 $ 119
  Redundant power supply $ 129
   

DELL PowerEdge Servers > Dell PowerEdge 2950

The newest from DELL in the very popular 2U rack mounted server line. This replacement for the PowerEdge 2850. The server features optional SAS and SATA hard drives with significant available internal storage space as well as the newest Dempsey/Woodcrest dual core Intel CPUs.

Please read the notes (below), there are a lot of issues which will affect your purchase decision.

Power requirements - average of 3 amps at 120 Volts.  Normal 120 Volt PDU's will suffice.  A PDU with 6 outlets will support only 5 servers.  3 amps x 5 - 15 amps. ( standard wall plug NEMA 5-15)
 

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     The PE 2950 shown above has a 1 x 6 backplane.  Note there is no floppy installed.
 
Price Hard Drives Processor's
Speed in MHz		 Memory RAID Backplane Condition Power Supply
$6999 2 x 36 15K
300 x 3 15k 3.5" SAS 		2 x Quad core X5460
2x6 mb cache		 32 gigs Perc 6/i  6 Drive
3.5" Devices		 Refurbished Redundant
$3499 146 x 3 15k 3.5" SAS 2 x Quad core X5410 2x6mb cache 16 gigs Perc 6/i  6 Drive
3.5" Devices		 Refurbished Redundant
$5999 146 x 3 15k 3.5" SAS 2 x Quad core X5355 2x4mb cache 32 gigs Perc 5/i  6 Drive
3.5" Devices		 Refurbished Redundant
$2899 146 x 3 15k 3.5" SAS 2 x Quad core E5345 2x4mb cache 16 gigs Perc 5/i  6 Drive
3.5" Devices		 Refurbished Redundant
$2499 146 x 3 15k 3.5" SAS 2 x Quad core E5335 2x4mb cache 8 gigs Perc 5/i  6 Drive
3.5" Devices		 Refurbished Redundant
$2199 73 x 3 10k 3.5" SAS 2 x Quad  Core E5320 2x4mb cache 8 gigs Perc 5/i  6 Drive
3.5" Devices		 Refurbished Redundant
$1799 73 x 3 10k 3.5" SAS 2 x Quad  Core E5320 2x4mb cache 4 gigs Perc 5/i  6 Drive
3.5" Devices		 Refurbished Redundant
$3999 750 x 6 7200rpm SATA 2 x Dual Core 2.0 Ghz 5130  4 mb cache 4 gigs Perc 5/i 6 Drive
3.5" Devices		 Refurbished Redundant
$1799 73 x 3 10k 3.5" SAS 2 x Dual Core 1.6 Ghz 5110 4mb cache 4 gigs Perc 5/i 6 Drive
3.5" Devices		 Refurbished
1 year  Scsistuff		 Single
$2299 73 x 3 10k 3.5" SAS 2 x Dual Core 1.6 Ghz 5110 4 mb cache 2 gigs Perc 5/i 6 Drive
3.5" Devices		 Refurbished
1 year Scsistuff		 Single
$3399 1 Tb x 4 7200rpm SATA II
73 x 2 15K 3.5" SAS		 2 x Quad Core E5320 2x4mb cache 4 gigs Perc 5/i 6 Drive
3.5" Devices		 Refurbished
1 year Scsistuff		 Single
  PowerEdge 2950 PowerEdge 2850
Processors Dual core
Intel 5050 2 x 2M 3.0GHz 667 MHz FSB
Intel 5060 2 x 2M 3.2 GHz 1066 MHz FSB
Intel 5080 2 x 2M 3.7 GHz 1066 MHz FSB
Intel 5110 4M 1.6 GHz 1066 MHz FSB
Intel 5130 4M 2.0 GHz 1333 MHz FSB
Intel 5140 4M 2.3 GHz 1333 MHz FSB
Intel 5150 4M 2.66 GHz 1333 MHz FSB
Intel 5160 4M 3.0 GHz 1333 MHz FSB
 Quad core E53XX series
2 x 4 Meg cache
Intel E5310/L5310 2 x 4M 1.6 Ghz 1066 Mhz FSB
Intel E5320/L5320 2 x 4M 1.86Ghz 1066 Mhz FSB
Intel E5335 2 x 4M 2.0 Ghz 1333Mhz FSB
Intel E5345 2 x 4M 2.33 Ghz 1333Mhz FSB
Intel X5355 2 x 4M 2.66Ghz 1333Mhz FSB
Intel X5365 2 x 4M 3.0Ghz 1333Mhz FSB
 Quad core E54XX series
2 x 6 Meg cache
Intel E5405  2 x 6 M 2.0 Ghz 1333Mhz FSB
Intel E5410  2 x 6 M 2.33 Ghz 1333Mhz FSB
Intel E5420  2 x 6 M 2.50 Ghz 1333Mhz FSB
Intel E5440  2 x 6 M 2.83 Ghz 1333Mhz FSB
Intel E5450  2 x 6 M 3.00 Ghz 1333Mhz FSB
Intel E5460  2 x 6 M 3.16 Ghz 1333Mhz FSB		 Dual core 2.8 or 3.0 GHz 2 x 2 Meg cache
Intel Pentium 4 Xeon - 1 or 2 Meg cache
EMT 64, not pin compatible with the older Xeon chips.
2.8 thru 3.8 GHz
Hard drive bays -
3 backplane option
 		 6 x 3.5" SATA or SAS
4 x 3.5" SATA or SAS
8 x 2.5" SAS only		 6
Ethernet controller 2 x Gigabit Ethernet 2 x Gigabit Ethernet
Raid controller Dual Channel SAS - Perc 5/i or Perc 6/i
The raid controller is now installed above the hard drive cage		 Dual Channel Ultra 320
External I/O 64 bit card 2 x PCI-X
1 x PCIe 8x
or
2 x PCIe 8x
1 x PCIe 4x		 3 x PCI-X
1 x 64 bit 133 MHz
2 x 64 bit 100 MHz
PCI-E is now optional (8 bit serial) using the Perc 4e/DC
PCIe or PCI-X expansion slots 3 3
Tape backup option DAT 72 only DAT 72 only
Motherboard Intel 5000P Intel 7520
Front side bus 667, 1066, or 1333 MHz 800 MHz
Power Supplies - max hot swap redundant 2 x 750 watt 2 x 700 watt
Memory Slots  8 slots - DDR2 PC4300F or 5300F Registered ECC Fully Buffered
64 Gigs Max ( 8 x 8 Gigs)		 6 - DDR2 PC3200 Registered ECC
12 Gigs Max ( 6 x 2 Gig)
 12 Gigs requires use of single ranked DIMM's. (extremely expensive)
Best upgrade 8 Gigs using 4 x 2 gig dual ranked DIMM
Notes 
1.  Chassis - backplanes are unique.  If you select a 2.5" backplane you cannot switch to a 3.5" backplane.
   a.  The 3.5" x 6 slot backplane is unable to mount a floppy drive.
   b.  3.5" x 4 and 3.5" x 6 backplanes are swappable.
   c.  Drives are now SAS, think of SCSI using a serial interface.  SAS requires a SAS backplane, they will not plug into a SATA backplane.
   d.  You can use either SAS or SATA drives in the 3.5" backplane.

2. PCIe and PCIx riser cards are interchangeable

3. Memory - servers with the following cpu's ship with PC4200F memory.  5050, 5060, 5080, 5110, 5120 i.e. 667 MHz and 1066 MHz FSB. 
   a.  The FBDIMM shipping with the 2950 is a serial bit transfer DIMM as opposed the 2850 parallel bit transfer DIMM.

4.  Rail kits are unique to the server. The rail kit is a combo versa/rapid rail.  The 2850 or 2650 rail kits will not work.

5.  Dual core cpu notes.  The 5100 series processors support a 4MB cache which is dual core.   Each core can use all or part of the 4MB cache.  Hence it is no longer described as a 2 x 2M core cache.  Think higher performance for database applications.
Quad core cpus require a unique motherboard
E54XX cpus require another unique motherboard - aint this great!!!!

6.  The Perc 5/i or 6/i internal raid controller can support SAS or SATA.   When using a SATA software raid array, initialization times are 2-4 times longer than SAS.  Performance is slower, SATA drives cannot be accessed as quickly as SAS drives.  You pay for what you get.  If you want performance buy SAS.  If you want the larger capacity use SATA and expect slower access and performance.

7.  2.5" SAS drives max capacty is now 146 gigs 10K.

8.  CPU power draw is much reduced with the 5100 series cpu.  65 watts each versus the 90 watt draw on the current 2850 cpu's.  Beware of the 5080 & 5060 cpu, 135 watts required per cpu!!!   This dual cpu (5060) server will use $136 per year more in electricity than a 5100 series. (assumes .12 cents per kilowatt hour).

9.  Performance is much enhanced over the older 800 FSB Xeon.  Performance even exceeds the AMD Athlon series.
 

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