Dell PowerEdge M640 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The PowerEdge M640 is a half-height two-socket blade server engineered for the M1000e and VRTX enclosures. The ThinkSystem SR630 was Lenovo's dense 1U two-socket enterprise server for the 1st and 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor family.
| Dell PowerEdge M640 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2017 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | blade | 1U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | 2 |
| Cpu platform | 1st and 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake-SP) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake-SP) up to 205W TDP |
| Memory slots | 16 | 24 |
| Memory type | DDR4 ECC RDIMM up to 2933 MT/s | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Drive bays | Up to 2x 2.5in SAS/SATA/NVMe or 2x M.2 SATA SSDs | Up to 10x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap bays (including up to 4 AnyBay NVMe bays) or 4x 3.5-inch LFF bays |
| Chassis compatibility | PowerEdge M1000e blade chassis and VRTX enclosure | — |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 3,072 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 3 PCIe 3.0 slots plus dedicated LOM and internal M.2 boot slots |
| Network onboard | — | LOM slot for 1GbE, 10GbE, or 25GbE plus dedicated 1GbE XClarity management port |
| Power supply | — | Dual redundant 550W / 750W / 1100W AC 80 PLUS Platinum or Titanium PSUs |
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