October 11, 2010
Chris Ramseyer
AVADirect Custom Small Business Server System
The AVADirect Custom Small Business Server System that we are looking at today was at one time planned to be a small, low cost, high performance NAS server that would compete with the likes of Thecus and QNAP on price, but deliver superior performance. Somewhere along the line the custom NAS server transformed into a Small Business Server; customization had dramatically changed the face of our NAS and with it the intended customer, usage model and more importantly, the price.
CONFIGURATION
See what components went into this custom computer build:
Socket 2011 Xeon E5-2600 V2 Server Processors
INTEL
2 x Xeon E5-2603 v2 Quad-Core 1.8GHz, LGA 2011, 6.4 GT/s QPI, 10MB L3 Cache, DDR3, 22nm, 80W, Retail Processor
DDR3L-1600 ECC Registered DIMM Memory
KINGSTON
16GB (4 x 4GB) Single-Rank PC3L-12800 DDR3L 1600MHz CL11 1.35V SDRAM DIMM, ECC Registered Memory