IBM Power System S924 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SR850
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The IBM Power System S924 is a 4U dual-socket enterprise server powered by IBM POWER9 processors. The ThinkSystem SR850 was Lenovo's dense 2U four-socket enterprise rack server designed for in-memory databases (SAP HANA), heavy virtualization, and mission-critical enterprise resource planning (ERP).
| IBM Power System S924 | Lenovo ThinkSystem SR850 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | IBM | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Feb 2018 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | 4U rack | 2U rack |
| Form factor | 4U rack | — |
| Sockets | 2 | — |
| Processor family | IBM POWER9 | — |
| Memory slots | 32 | 48 |
| Max memory | 4TB DDR4-2666 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 18x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe | Up to 16x 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap bays (supporting up to 8 NVMe AnyBay drives) |
| Power supplies | 2x 1400W Redundant Platinum | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 4 |
| Cpu platform | — | Up to 4 Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake-SP) or 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake-SP) processors up to 205W TDP |
| Memory type | — | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 6,144 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 8 PCIe 3.0 slots plus dedicated LOM slot |
| Network onboard | — | Modular LOM slot (1GbE/10GbE) plus dedicated 1GbE XClarity management port |
| Power supply | — | Dual redundant 1100W / 1600W / 2000W AC 80 PLUS Platinum hot-swap power supplies |
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