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Dell has found a gap in the rack server market and aims to be the first to fill it. Is its latest PowerEdge R510 a good fit? We investigate in this review.

Dell’s latest PowerEdge R510 aims to fit neatly into a niche in the server market as it targets small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that want plenty of available storage in their rack but don’t want to invest in a storage area network (SAN).

At only 24in deep, this 2U chassis is also much shorter than standard servers such as HP’s ProLiant DL380 G6 and Dell’s own PowerEdge R710 making for an interesting alternative for space-strapped data centres.

The R510 may not have the depth of the R710 but it matches it easily in the storage department as its front panel has room for up to eight hot-swap hard disks. The carriers accept 3.5in. or 2.5in drives and Dell’s optional RAID controllers support a mixture of SAS and SATA as well. There’s more on the horizon as Dell plans to expand the R510 with even more SFF drive bays.

An article reviewing the Dell R510, Dell’s new server aimed at the small/medium business sector, that we continue to have new products and solutions for the small and medium business sectors, can only help in on boarding new users, new communities and in doing so creating opportunities for business and revenue generation.

The new R510 comes with their LifeCycle Controller, support for 8 disks, 64GB ram, and two Dual or Quad Core Intel Xeon processors, and would be ideal as an application server or where you need extra local storage, I wonder how it would do as a virtual data center in a box solution, where I could send my remote office, their Intranet server, their file server and application servers on one physical server. I’m off to check out more, you can read more information here, and the specifications PDF is here. I remain a fan of the new Dell servers and their blades, they continue to improve the system management features like their LifeCycle Controller and their iDRAC6, long may they continue to do so.

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