Dell PowerEdge R250 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR250 V2
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R250 is an enterprise 1U rack server powered by 1 Intel Xeon E-2300 Series or Intel Pentium Processors (up to 8 cores, 95W TDP) and 4 memory slots supporting up to 128GB DDR4-3200 ECC UDIMM. The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR250 V2 is a compact 1U single-socket rack server built around Intel Xeon E-2300 series processors.
| Dell PowerEdge R250 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR250 V2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Oct 2021 | Mar 2022 |
| Form factor | 1U rack | 1U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 1 | — |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon E-2300 Series or Intel Pentium Processors (up to 8 cores, 95W TDP) | — |
| Memory slots | 4 | — |
| Memory type | DDR4-3200 ECC UDIMM | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 128 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 4x 3.5-inch cabled or hot-swap SAS/SATA drives | Up to 4x 3.5-inch or 8x 2.5-inch hot-swap drive bays plus optional dual internal M.2 boot mirrors |
| Pcie slots | Up to 2 PCIe Gen4 slots | — |
| Gpu support | None supported | — |
| Network onboard | 2x 1GbE LOM ports; 1x 1GbE iDRAC port | — |
| Power supply | Single cabled 450W Bronze PSU | Dual redundant hot-swap 450W Platinum power supplies or fixed 300W Gold PSU |
| Processor | — | Single Intel Xeon E-2300 series processor up to 8 cores (up to 95W TDP) |
| Memory | — | 4x DDR4 DIMM slots supporting up to 128GB DDR4-3200 ECC UDIMM |
| Expansion slots | — | Up to 3x PCIe slots: 1x PCIe 4.0 x16, 1x PCIe 4.0 x8, and 1x PCIe 3.0 internal storage slot |
| Network | — | 2x integrated 1GbE ports via Broadcom BCM5720 with dedicated XCC management port |
| Management | — | Lenovo XClarity Controller (XCC) |
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