New PowerEdge T150 Overview
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Summary
After nearly three years, Dell Technologies has released the new PowerEdge T150 the entry level 1S tower server designed to power value workloads and applications for budget-conscious customers that prioritize reduced costs over expanded feature sets. This DfD was written to inform readers on what new capabilities they can expect from the PowerEdge T150, including coverage of the product features, systems management, security, and value proposition explaining which use cases are best suited for small businesses looking to invest in this value tower server.
Market Positioning
The PowerEdge T150 was designed to be the most economical entry within the single-socket 1U PowerEdge tower server space. Small businesses requiring the most affordable tower server, while still receiving the enterprise features and high-quality experience that the PowerEdge brand is known for, will gain the most from this offering.
In addition to being the lowest-cost PowerEdge tower server, the T150s diminutive footprint presents another value proposition – it is also the smallest PowerEdge tower offering at 14.17H x 6.89W x
17.9D (28.6 Liters). Customers seeking to occupy tight spaces in their Edge or ROBO environments can benefit from this small form factor to utilize every bit of space available. In layman’s terms, the T150 can be deployed where most other towers cannot. Regardless of where deployed – the PowerEdge T150 delivers new levels of performance, flexibility and affordability that will help drive both business and organizational success to SMB customers.
Expanded Product Features
Intel® Xeon® E-2300 Processors
Perhaps the most notable hardware addition to the PowerEdge T150 is the inclusion of Intel’s latest Xeon® E-2300 processor family. This uses the Cypress Cove CPU microarchitecture; offering a 19% increase of IPC (instructions per cycle) while also increasing IGP cores, L1 cache speeds and L2 cache speeds, when compared to previous generation Xeon® E-2200 processors. These performance increases, in tangent with other new features listed below, allow for up to 28% faster IO speeds when compared to the previous generation PowerEdge T140.
Memory
Memory capabilities have vastly improved, with the latest Xeon® E- series memory controllers now supporting up to four DDR4 UDIMMs at 3200MT/s (a 20% increase over the previous generation). The supported DIMM capacity has also doubled from 16GB to 32GB. Having twice as much data stored in faster DIMMs will significantly reduce data transfer times, resulting in increased productivity.
Storage/RAID
Support for up to four 2.5”/3.5” SATA/SAS drives is offered. Additionally, vSAS (Value SAS) SSD support has been expanded to provide more options to further offer an affordable, performance SSD tier. Drives can be configured with Dell Technologies BOSS-S1 and PERC SW/HW RAID solutions, and can be mapped to add-in cards such as the S150, H345/H355, H745/H755 and HBA355i.
I/O
Another major improvement is newly added support for one slot of PCIe Gen4 - the fourth iteration of the PCIe standard. Compared to PCIe Gen3, the throughput per lane doubles from 8GT/s to 16GT/s, effectively cutting transfer times in half for data traveling from storage to CPU.
Power/Cooling
Only one power supply unit is required to run the power-optimized PowerEdge T150 – both the 300W AC Cabled Bronze and 400W AC Cabled PSU are supported offerings. Non-hot swap fans reside in the middle of the chassis to cool the components that generate the most heat – a design intent focusing on power and cooling optimization.
Manageability (Size, Weight and Acoustics)
The tower dimensions are identical to the previous-gen PowerEdge T140, with dimensions of
14.17”H x 6.89”W x 17.9”D. The maximum weight with all drives populated is extremely light, at
11.68kg (or 25.74lb), allowing for easy relocation. Lastly, the acoustics were tailored to be most fitting for quiet environments, such as on a desk around a seated user’s head height, coming in at 25dBA for each work case, so any noise created is practically inaudible in office environments. These various chassis measurements are ideal for storefront, office and ROBO locations.
Figure 1 – Side angle of the sleek, new PowerEdge T150
Simple and Intuitive Systems Management
Managing the PowerEdge T150 is simple and intuitive with the Dell integrated systems management tool – iDRAC9 (Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller). iDRAC9 is a hardware device containing its own processor, memory and network interface that provides administrators with an abundance of server operation information to a dashboard screen that can be remotely accessed and managed. Operational conditions such as temperatures, fan speeds, chassis alarms, power supplies, RAID status and individual disk status are always monitored, giving small businesses more flexibility to allocate limited resources elsewhere.
Exceptional Security
Legacy Boot support has been deprecated by Intel® and replaced with the superior UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot, which has better programmability, greater scalability, and higher security. UEFI Secure Boot also provides faster booting times and support for 9ZBs, while legacy BIOS is limited to 2.2TB boot drives. Customers who purchase the latest Xeon® E-2300 processors will also inherit Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) baked into their CPUs. SGX security provides maximum protection by encrypting sections of memory to create highly secured environments to store sensitive data. This feature is an instrumental security feature for Edge customers that consistently transfer data between the cloud and the client.
Recommended Use Cases
The PowerEdge T150 was designed to accommodate budget-conscious customers looking for the lowest-cost PowerEdge tower server. By trading non-critical features, such as hot-plug and redundancy support, for a reduced total cost, the baseline price of the T150 is significantly less than the baseline T350 that offers these enterprise features. This positions the PowerEdge T150 as our most affordable tower server solution - perfect for a small business that doesn’t yet need enterprise class hardware features or the ability to scale workloads.
Having office-friendly sizing and acoustics, the T150 can be deployed at virtually any location. Whether that be at Near/Mid Edge sites or within ROBO environments, the T150 brings new levels of performance, flexibility and affordability that help grow small businesses. Some common workloads that are powered by the PowerEdge T150 include filing, printing, mailing, messaging, billing, and collaboration/sharing.
Please keep in mind that the PowerEdge T150 was designed to value affordability over feature- richness, resulting in the removal of some features/support (to reduce cost) that may be valuable for customers intending to scale their workloads. Small businesses that value enterprise-class features, or intend to scale their workloads, should strongly consider investing in the PowerEdge T350 tower server instead.
Conclusion
The PowerEdge T150 has been crafted to be Dell Technologies most cost-effective PowerEdge tower server offering. By only including the most critical features a small business would need, budget-conscious customers can have the high-quality experience that the PowerEdge brand is known for at the most affordable price-point. The PowerEdge T150 the perfect solution for small businesses looking to invest in an entry-level tower server for their business needs.