However, it’s well designed and built, comes very close for quality and value, and has the unique Lifecycle Controller, which offers superior server deployment tools. The R710 doesn’t have the same high storage potential of the ProLiant D元80 G6 and HP’s management package includes superior power monitoring features.

For network connections, the server sports four embedded Gigabit ports and these are TOE ready with the optional iSCSI offload upgrade. With SiSoft Sandra punishing all 16 logical cores, this rose to a peak of only 270W.įor general expansion options the server has two riser cards at the back, each with a pair of PCI Express slots. monitoring and checks the AC power meter and ambient temperature monitor that is. We found the R710 efficient here, with our inline power meter recording only 16W in standby and only 150W with Windows Server 2003 R2 running in idle. For SAS or SATA interface drives Dual Power supplies 750Watts Model of Server is HP D元80 Gen8. If performance is a higher priority you can opt for high output 870W modules. I currently have a R710 LFF with the H200 connecting the 6 built in drives. Technical Specs are : 16 Core Intel Xeon - 2 x E5-2690 3.8Ghz (Base is 2.9Ghz) 192GB RAM - DDR3 1600Mhz 240GB SSD Drive Raid Card - HP P420i with cache 8 x 2.5Inch hot swap disks bays. You have two choices for power, with the review system fitted with a pair of 570W Energy Smart supplies. During testing, we found the R710 to be unobtrusive – not as quiet as the R610, but hardly noticeable nonetheless.

Cooling is handled by a row of five hot-swap fan modules arranged across the front of the motherboard.

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