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Help knowing the difference between dell server models? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey all, I am very new to the IT field so please forgive my ignorance in all this. I need help figuring out how dell servers (specifically poweredge) are named. As in I don't know if a 730 is better than a 810 or whatnot, or if there are general rules of thumb to judge the newness of a server based on the name standard.

I know with hp proliant they have generation numbers to help, but that's where my knowledge ends.

Thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Letter determines if it’s rack mounted (R) or a tower (T). First number is the model the higher that number the more higher end the model is. Second number arguably the most important is the generation or how old it is. Example being I’d take a R340 server over a R710. R340 being a lower model but newer and faster generation.. hope that helped make sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And 4 digit names I think are the and variants. Also , an r740 usually has 8, but can have 16 drives, in the 2.5" variety. plus boot drives. An r740xd can have 24 2.5 or 12 3.5 drives.

Then you have storage variants, think end xc. An r340 likely has 1 cpu, few drive slots. An r640 is 1u. An r740 is 2u An r930 is 2u, 4cpu (did the do 940, 950 variants?)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

R740xd only comes in the 24 2.5 variant which can be sas/sata or nvme depending on the backplane. For the 3.5 variant the model becomes the R740xd2 which is 24 3.5 drives

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also the 9xx servers like the R930 you mentioned are 4U.