Dell PowerEdge R320 Rack Server Rental

Dell R320 model server has a 1U form factor, one processor socket, and uses the Intel Xeon E5-2400 series processor. It has six memory slots (96GB total RAM with 16GB DIMMs), has eight 2.5 inch drive bays, and has one PCI-E 3.0 x8 and one PCI-E 3.0 x16 expansion slots. It has a total of four, six, or eight physical cores. It has a total of eight, twelve, or sixteen logical cores with Intel hyper-threading enabled.

The downside of this is being limited to slower processor clock speeds with the E5-2400 series compared to the E3-1200 series processors, which means you will see slower single-threaded performance.

Our configuration Tips: The R320 is an interesting option for some smaller workloads, since it uses the Xeon E5-2400 series Sandy Bridge-EN processor (that is usually used in two-socket systems) instead of the Xeon E3-1200 Sandy Bridge or Xeon E3-1200 v2 series Ivy Bridge processor that is used in most new single-socket servers. This lets you use up to 96GB of RAM instead of being limited to 32GB of RAM, and it lets you have up to eight physical processor cores instead of being limited to four physical processor cores.

Workloads: Might be a good choice for a DW type of workload, where the extra processor cores and higher memory capacity would be more useful. A single-socket server with an Intel E3-1200 v2 series processor would be better for a small OLTP workload. Keep in mind that SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition is limited to 64GB of RAM.