Dell PowerEdge FX FC430 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The PowerEdge FC430 is an innovative quarter-width compute sled that houses dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 processors in an ultra-dense modular format. The ThinkSystem SD530 was Lenovo's modular 2U 4-node ultra-dense multi-node server designed for high-performance computing (HPC), enterprise grid clusters, large-scale financial simulation, and cloud service provider scale-out…
| Dell PowerEdge FX FC430 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-support | end-of-sale |
| Released | Mar 2015 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | blade | 2U 4-node |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | 2 |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 and E5-2600 v4 series processors | Dual Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake-SP) or 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake-SP) processors up to 165W TDP per node (8 CPUs per 2U chassis) |
| Memory slots | 8 | 16 |
| Memory type | DDR4 ECC RDIMM up to 2400 MT/s | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Drive bays | Up to 2x 1.8in uSATA SSDs or 1x 1.8in SSD with front InfiniBand mezzanine | Up to 6x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap bays per node (up to 24 drives per 2U D2 chassis) |
| Chassis compatibility | PowerEdge FX2 and FX2s enclosures | — |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 1,024 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 2 PCIe 3.0 slots plus 1 dedicated LOM slot per node |
| Network onboard | — | Modular LOM slot per node plus shared chassis Scalable Infrastructure Management Controller |
| Power supply | — | Shared redundant 1600W / 2000W AC 80 PLUS Platinum power supplies in D2 chassis |
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