Taipei, Taiwan, January 14th 2021 – Gigabyte Technology, (TWSE: 2376), maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced anew storage dense server, S251-3O0, for over 400TB of storage. This Intel Xeon Scalable-based server has up to 26 drive bays and seven expansion slots, while it targets software-defined storage, big data, virtualization, and media & content storage.
The S251-3O0 is a dense, 2U, data-centric server that can run a single 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor or Intel Xeon W-3200 processor. It supports processors with up to 28 cores (205W TDP). The S251-3O0 features a single Xeon processor paired with eight DIMM slots of DDR4 (up to 2933MHz) or a mix of DDR4 and Intel Optane Persistent Memory (PMem). To add NICs, storage, or accelerators, PCIe switches expand the number of PCIe lanes to seven, and all are low-profile slots. Expanding the storage capacity in a 2U chassis to allow for 24 x 3.5” HDD/SSD bays, a new design took shape with two sets of drive bays that have easy access from the sides. The default setting for the S251-3O0 supports 2 (rear) x 2.5” SATA drives and a single M.2 drive. When the included SAS expander pairs with an add-on SAS card in a PCIe slot, 24 x 3.5” HDD bays come on line for SATA or SAS drives. Furthermore, adding an optional NVMe HBA card can change support for the two rear bays from SATA to NVMe.
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