Boston Green Power 1200-6 reviewed by IT Pro
"It easily sets the mark as the lowest cost quad Opteron 6100 server currently on the market"
10 August 2010 Source: www.itpro.co.uk
Supplied for review by Boston Limited, the Green Power 1200-6 uses Opteron 6100-series processors and no less than 48 processing cores. Despite all this, it costs little more than a well specified dual socket Xeon 5600 system.
Is this the best value 4P rack server yet?
Boston emphasises the server's performance and capacity. The server can handle up to six hot-swap drives and the price includes four high performance 300GB Seagate Cheetah 6Gbps SAS drives...
...Power redundancy is included in the price, as Boston as included a pair of 1400W hot-plug supplies...
...The 1200-6 also scored well in our power consumption tests where we measured it sucking up 335W in idle and peaking at 703W under extreme load from SiSoft Sandra...
...The server presents a very tidy interior with easy access to all critical components...
...Each processor is accompanied by eight DIMM sockets with the price including 64GB of fast 1333MHz DDR3 memory. A top capacity of 512GB makes the 1200-6 a good candidate for virtualisation...
...Six hot swap fans handle chassis cooling and most of the motherboard is covered by a large, transparent shroud to help direct airflow...
...Supermicro's embedded Remote Management Module (RMM) provides dedicated remote management access to the server regardless of its condition...
...Whereas the likes of HP, IBM and Dell expect you to buy an upgrade to get remote control and virtual media services, Supermicro includes these free...
...It easily sets the mark as the lowest cost quad Opteron 6100 server currently on the market...
...The Green Power 1200-6 is good value as it costs less than half that of an equivalent 4P Xeon 7500 system. It's a good choice for SMBs looking to move up to 4P servers, possibly with a view to consolidating older 1P and 2P systems.