Large storage easy to manage server evaluation ASUS RS520

Explosive growth of today’s data storage requirements for enabling users to improve year by year, but in the choice of storage, the storage capacity has not only considered the only standard users, storage capacity and price factors to a large extent determine the user’s choice, and performance, and backup from the point of view, a dedicated SAN and other storage devices is undoubtedly the best option, but the high cost of these devices are not used by the user can take. The explosive growth of today’s data, enabling users to demand increased year by year for storage, but in the choice of storage, the storage capacity has not only considered the only standard users, storage capacity and price factors to a large extent determine the user’s choice , and the backup from the performance point of view, a dedicated SAN storage devices such as undoubtedly the best option, but the high cost of these devices are not used by the user can take.

So, with mass storage memory Server Applications will be born and are subject to a number of users of all ages, the website, video, online games and other enterprises received multiple applications, and we want to tell you of this ASUS RS520-E6/RS8 is a main storage performance server products, this dual server can provide high computing power in the case also provides 8 Hard disk Bracket, large storage capacity makes it a preferred target of many enterprises.

ASUS RS520-E6/RS8 ASUS ASUS RS520-E6/RS8 is in Intel Nehalem-EP Xeon 5500 processors released the next day it launched a new platform for server products, the use of Xeon 5500 chipset, supports a full range of Nehalem-EP architecture Xeon 5500 processor, support for DDR3 Memory , Making it both in processor performance or IO, compared with the previous generation of products has greatly raised and up to eight hard drives with the bracket is made to enhance straight-line server storage capacity, also shows its main surface enterprise-class storage applications to users.

Overall, ASUS RS520-E6/RS8 server processing performance with strong, good storage capacity, manageability is high. First, from the processing performance, this is a new platform based on the Nehalem Xeon server product, which supports a full range of Xeon processors, the new structure, while the new generation of processors thanks to the new design, integrated memory controller, using point to point QuickPath bus, supports Hyper-Threading Technology, Core frequency by a series of intelligent technologies to accelerate improvements in performance than the previous generation of products that improve a lot.

In the main storage performance, ASUS RS520-E6/RS8 performance is satisfactory, this product supports 8 hot-swap 3.5-inch SAS drives, onboard 8 SAS interface, and 6 SATA, in 2U of space for maximum storage expansion. ASUS RS520-E6/RS8 also supports Asus exclusive PIKE card, users can choose according to their own situation SATA or SAS drives, the PIKE card support RAID0, 1,10,5 multiple array model can provide a wide range of data protection program requirements while providing a more economical choice.

The vicinity of the server from the beginning, ASUS also enhanced server management capabilities, this ASUS RS520-E6/RS8 on the provision of a dedicated band management Network Interface, with optional iKVM management chip, users can log management interface through IE, only to realize the fortune server monitoring, you can remotely switch machine, remote desktop, console redirection, Power supply Threshold settings and other aspects management, effectively increasing the system manageability.

Now, let us look at this server, the specific structure and properties of it. >>