Here's what ITPro thought when they got to put our Boston Quattro 1132-T to the test.
Multi-node servers are proving a more popular choice than blade servers for rack dense environments. They're cheaper to buy and run, offer equally good processing densities, are easier to scale up with demand and a lot more amenable when it comes to hardware upgrades.
Boston's latest Quattro 1132-T shows these attributes off admirably. This compact 1U rack server houses a powerful pair of nodes each equipped with dual E5-2600 v3 Xeons, a heap of DDR4 memory, plenty of storage permutations and all for less than eight grand.
The system is an all-Supermicro affair comprising its latest SuperServer 1028TP multi-node rack platform. We have the DC1TR model on review which delivers fast SAS-3 RAID protected storage and dual 10GBase-T ports per node.
Other options include motherboards with embedded 56Gbps QSFP Infiniband ports for low-latency server clustering. Lower cost versions are also available that support SATA storage only and have just a pair of 1GbE network ports.
Read the full review here.