Testberichte 2.0

A floor-standing server packed with expansion potential, Dell's PowerEdge T710 is ideal for businesses with no need for a rack system

The T710 offers great expansion potential, combined with good value and excellent build quality

Dell's PowerEdge T710 is one of the largest pedestal servers on the market offering a remarkable expansion potential. It's big and bold and in this review we find out whether it's also the best.

The T710 is well designed and matches IBM's x3500 M2 for storage capacity and expansion potential. It's also better value and although its cooling system is a tad too noisy for small offices, it is well suited to a wide range of deployment scenarios. ...

Dell's PowerEdge T710 is ideal for branch office or medium-sized business use, where performance, expandability and flexibility are key attributes.

Plenty of PCIe expansion and disk capacity, Four Gigabit Ethernet ports, Supports dual hot-plug power supplies, Rack-mount option

Bulky

The key features on the front panel are a diagnostic LCD, which normally glows blue but turns red when warning of a fault, a reset button and a pair of USB ports, which are useful for plugging in a keyboard and mouse for occasional manual configuration

Dell T710 comes with 8MB of Video Adapter (Matrox G200). Even for normal web browsing on multimedia or text intensive websites, the graphics processing / display is so slow that it feels like you are using an old fashioned P-III system. I dont know what...

Qualifications: I am the Network Administrator of a medium-sized server farm in the Mid-West, which consists of some 150+ Dell PowerEdge servers of various models and designs. These models include 1750, 1850, 2650, 2800, 2850, 2900, 2950, ...

Very powerful, robust, scaleable, versatile, and reliable

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