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Upgrading to new servers is a good way for organizations to get performance improvements that meet growing operational demands. The latest-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R650 can boost IOPS performance with a new redundant array of independent disks (RAID) controller that can use speedy NVMe™ PCIe® Gen4 storage.
We tested a new Dell EMC PowerEdge R650 server with NVMe PCIe Gen4 SSDs and powered by pre-production 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with 32 cores and found that, as anticipated, it delivered more IOPS than a previous-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 server. The IOPS increase is due partially to the new, unique Dell PERC H755N Front RAID controller, which allows the server to access high-performance NVMe storage with a redundant hardware architecture. Until now, the only way to provide data protection for NVMe RAID was to use software RAID.
We also found that the PowerEdge R650 with NVMe SSDs transferred more data per second from the CPUs to the disks than the previous- generation server. Processing more IOPS and providing greater disk bandwidth, due to the combination of a new RAID controller and support for NVMe PCIe Gen4 storage, could allow your organization to support more users and greater application usage.