PowerEdge R420

The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R420 is a two-socket, 1U rack-mount server offering powerful performance and scalability in a dense 1U rack form factor. An excellent fit for compute-intense applications and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, the R420’s low profile also makes it highly attractive for departmental email, workgroup collaboration and file and print in spaceconstrained departmental or remote sites of large businesses and public

Performance and reliability combined for confidence

The R420 features the extensive performance of the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 or E5-2400 v2 product families. Powerful processors alone, however, are not enough to deliver balanced performance. Compute power must be combined with sufficient memory and I/O bandwidth to prevent performance bottlenecking. The R420 complements its processors with 12 DIMM slots and two PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0-enabled I/O slots, providing a substantial memory footprint and wide I/O bandwidth to support both memory-intensive and data-intensive applications and databases. These combined technology features are also key design requirements when supporting
consolidated and virtualized environments, a role the R420 fits well. To protect your virtualized workloads, the R420 offers dual, redundant SD media making your hypervisors redundant and failsafe. Other reliability and availability features include up to four 3.5-inch or eight 2.5-inch hotplug hard drives, both hardware and software RAID options and redundant, hot-plug power supplies.