PowerEdge R520

Technical Guide

The PowerEdge R520, a two-socket, 2U rack server that delivers balanced performance and storage expandability for data-intensive applications.

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January 2014 | Version 6.0

Table of contents

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1 System overview

Introduction

The Dell™ PowerEdge™ R520 is a two-socket, 2U rack-mount server offering an excellent balance of processing power, storage capacity and redundancy. The R520's price per performance, configuration flexibility and headroom for growth make it highly appealing for consolidation and virtualization, web serving and hosting, departmental database applications such as business analytics and a wide range of general-purpose collaboration and productivity applications.

Designed for demanding workloads

The extensive memory, storage and I/O capacities of the R520 make it ideal for consolidation and virtualization. Delivering the performance of the Intel ® Xeon ® processor E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2 product families and complemented by up to 12 DIMMs, up to four PCI Express ® (PCIe) 3.0-enabled slots and up to eight internal hard drives, the R520 delivers powerful, balanced performance. With built-in redundancy features, the R520 is a