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Dell PowerEdge 6650

Product Overview

The Dell PowerEdge 6650 is a rack-optimized 4U general purpose server designed to replace the PowerEdge 6450. The PowerEdge 6650 is specifically designed for customers deploying business-critical enterprise systems inside data centers and other rack environments. The PowerEdge 6650 delivers the same high availability, scalability, performance, and serviceability features as the PowerEdge 6600, but in a 4U rack dense form factor suited for data center, clustering, storage area network (SAN), and scalable enterprise computing (SEC) environments.
Product Features
Key features of the PowerEdge 6650 include:

  • Quad 1.6GHz Xeon processors on the ServerWorks GCHE chipset when first shipped, with faster processors likely to be available later.
  • 200/400 MHz Front Side Bus (quad-pumped Data)
  • 512K and 1MB L3 cache options
  • Two memory cards in system for support of up to 16GB SDRAM
  • I/O Architecture supports 8 slots of PCI and PCI-X
    • 1 PCI Slot at 32-bit, 33 MHz
    • 7 PCI-X Slots at 64 bit, 100 MHz (or PCI at 64/66)
    • All slots support PCI Hot Plug (PHP)
  • Two integrated PCI-X Broadcom 5700/5411 10/100/1000 (Gbit) Ethernet NICs
  • Integrated single channel U160 SCSI controller for external tape support
  • RAID support with optional PERC3 SCSI PCI adapters (dual or quad channels)
  • 1MB Flash for system BIOS, video BIOS and SCSI BIOS
  • Integrated PCI video with 8MB SDRAM
  • Redundant, individual hot-swap cooling for system boards and peripherals
  • Dell Embedded Server Management 3 provides IPMI 1.0 compliance
  • Supports optional Dell Remote Access Card (DRAC III)
  • Hot-Pluggable SCSI backplane
    • Five slot backplane for 1" drives only (Can be split into 2x3 backplane via a daughtercard)
  • 4U chassis can be oriented vertically as a floor-standing tower or rack-mounted horizontally
  • 5 hot-plug drive bays
  • 1 internal 5 1/4" bays (half-height or full-height) for tape support
  • Redundant, hot-swap 900W power supplies (supports 2 supplies in a 1+1 configuration)
Comparison Chart
 Features  PowerEdge 6450  PowerEdge 6650

  Chassis   4U Rack Mount   4U Rack Mount  
  Max # of Processors   4   4  
  Processor   Pentium III Xeon 700MHz & 900MHz   Intel Xeon MP 1.4GHz MHz. 1.5GHz & 1.6GHz. Supports Hyper-threading.  
  On-die Cache   Up to 2MB L2   256K L2 / 512K L3  
  Chipset   ServerWorks HE   ServerWorks GHCE  
  System Bus Speed   100 MHz   400 MHz  
  RAM (maximum/minimum)   256 MB/8 GB   512 MB/16 GB  
  Type of Memory   SDRAM   DDR, 4-way interleaving  
  I/O Slots   7 total: 2 x 64-bit/66MHz, 4 x 64-bit/33MHz, and 1 x 32-bit/33MHz   8 total: 7 x 64-bit/100MHz,and 1 x 32-bit/33MHz  
  Total I/O bandwidth   1 GB/s total   5 GB/s total  
  Hard Drive Options   2x2/ 1x4 (1" only) split backplane. Total of 4 HDs   2x3/ 1x5 (1" only) split backplane. Total of 5 HDs  
  Maximum Internal Storage   292 GB   365 GB  
  Interface Controller   Ultra3 (Ultra160) SCSI (dual channel 7899)   Ultra3 (Ultra160) SCSI (single channel 7892)  
  NICs   1 Embedded Intel Pro 100+   Dual Embedded Broadcom Gigabit NICs  
  Availability Features   Hot-plug hard drives; redundant, hot-plug power supplies (optional); redundant, hot-plug fans; hot-plug PCI   Hot-plug hard drives; redundant, hot-plug power supplies (standard); redundant, hot-plug fans; hot-plug PCI  
  Memory Availability Features   ECC, ChipKill   ECC, ChipKill, Spare Row, Memory Mirroring  
  Power   Redundant power 2+1   Standard redundant power 1+1 dual power cords 900W supplies  
  Remote Management   DRAC II card optional   ESM3, DRAC III card optional  
  Tape   External, rack only   External, rack and floor  

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