Reviews - Channel Insider
Empowering the next generation Channel
 

Sponsored Links
  • Get up and running in as quickly as 30 days with BI. Learn how today.
  • FREE Securing Smartphones & Tablets for Dummies Book from Sophos
  • 5 New Technologies That Will Change Enterprise ITAdvertisement
  • Build an IT Infrastructure That Delivers the Future

    		•  

    Supermicro Does Super Job with Super Server

    in Reviews



    DATE: 2008-10-28 | By Frank Ohlhorst
    Article Rating:starstarstarstarstar / 8
    Article Views: 9184

      Table of Contents:
    1. Supermicro Does Super Job with Super Server
    2. Test Drive:

    Supermicro crams all the best stuff into a 1U server that would be at home in the data center and small office.

    Rate This Article:
    Poor Best
    Add This Article To:

    Supermicro Does Super Job with Super Server - Test Drive:


    ( Page 2 of 2 )

    Supermicro sent over Super Server for testing and equipped it with a pair of Harpertown (Xeon E5450 3GHz) CPUs, 6GB of DDR2 RAM and a Fujitsu 147GB SAS 15K 3.5-inch hard drive. That configuration that should cost an integrator around $1,500.

    We installed Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition (64-bit) and took the unit for a test drive. Installation was quite fast and the system went from “no OS” to a member of our domain in less than an hour.

    To take a peek at performance, we threw the 64-bit version of  Passmark’s Performance Test on the system and were rewarded with an impressive Passmark rating of 2885—performance ample enough to make short work of Microsoft’s new arrivals of Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008.

    System builders can expect to pay around $750 for a bare-bones unit. Complete specs can be found at Supermicro.





    comments dic



     
     
    >>> More Reviews Articles          >>> More By Frank Ohlhorst
     



    		 


    Related Content

    Articles Labs/How-To Multimedia

    channel chatter


    HTML PLAIN TEXT

    Keep on top of news for VARs and Resellers with CI's Weekly Newsletter and Alerts.


    [ci] feeds
    XML
    Add Channel News, Product Reviews, Trends and Analysis to your RSS newsreader or My Yahoo!

     

    CHANNEL SPONSORED RESOURCE CENTER
     
     
     
    Start the New Year with business intelligence—it’s a smart move
    Join us on February 1 for an encore rebroadcast at either 5 am or 12 noon EST and discover how business intelligence (BI) supports companies in uncertain business and economic climates. Get expert advice on how to create a strategy that fits your organization's needs and budget and see how quickly it can pay for itself.
    Click Here
     
    Security and Availability Essentials for Running Your Business in the Cloud
    Are you moving to the cloud? Find out what every IT professional should know about security and availability before moving to the cloud. Hear what a security provider’s own CSO has to say.
    Watch Video
    A new algorithm automatically identifies relationships between variables to help reduce researcher prejudice.
    Click HereAdvertisement