Dell PowerEdge R720 Technical Guide - Page 8

Compared to the previous generation of Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers, the R720 and R720xd have more drive bay options, more PCIe slots, a larger memory footprint, flexible I/O, Express Flash PCIe solid-state drives (available Q2 2012), advanced system management, and hot-plug redundant cooling. The R720 also supports optional dual internal RAID controllers and up to four optional internal GPUs. Table 2 lists the technical specifications for the PowerEdge R720 and R720xd systems. For the latest information on supported features, visit Dell.com. Feature Form factor Processors Processor sockets Front side bus (FSB) Cache Chipset Memory1 PCIe slots RAID controller Hard drives (hot-plug) Specification 2U rack Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family 2 2 Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) links; 6.4 GT/s; 7.2 GT/s; 8.0 GT/s 2.5MB per core; core options: 2, 4, 6, 8 Intel C600 Up to 768GB (24 DIMM slots): 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR3 up to 1600MT/s R720: 7 PCIe slots: One x16 full-length, full-height Three x8 full-length, full-height Three x8 half-length, half-height R720xd: 6 PCIe slots: Two x16 full-length, full-height One x8 full-length, full-height Three x8 half-length, half-height Internal controllers: PERC S110 (software RAID; R720 only) PERC H310 PERC H710 PERC H710P External HBAs (RAID): PERC H810 External HBAs (non-RAID): 6Gbps SAS HBA R720 drive bay options:  Up to 16 x 2.5"  Up to 8 x 2.5" + 8 x 2.5" (with dual RAID controllers)  Up to 8 x 2.5"  Up to 8 x 2.5" + 4 x 2.5" Express Flash2 or up to 8 x 3.5" R720xd drive bay options:  Up to 24 x 2.5" (front) + 2 x 2.5" (back) or  Up to 12 x 3.5" (front) + 2 x 2.5" (back) Hard drive options:  2.5" SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS (15K, 10K), nearline SAS (7.2K), SATA (7.2K)  2.5" Express Flash PCIe SSD2 (R720 only)  3.5" SAS (15K), nearline SAS (7.2K), SATA (7.2K) Self-encrypting drives (SEDs) available 8 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide