Highlights
The IBM Power Systems 520 Express server is designed to bring the economies, efficiencies, and capabilities of POWER6 to your small and distributed business needs.
Summary of standard features:
-Tower or rack-mount (4U) configurations
-1-, 2-, and 4-core SMP design
-1 GB of PC2-5300 667 MHz ECC (error checking and correcting) memory expandable to 16 GB (1-core), 32 GB (2-core), or 64 GB (4-core)
-Choice of three DASD options:
-6 x 3.5-inch DASD backplane with no external SAS port
-6 x 3.5-inch DASD backplane with an external SAS port
-8 x 2.5-inch DASD backplane with an external SAS port
-Choice of three integrated virtual Ethernet daughter cards:
-Dual-port 10/100/1000 Mb copper(default)
-Quad-port 10/100/1000 Mb copper
-Dual-port 10 Gb optical
-Two media bays:
-One slim bay for an IDE or SATA DVD-ROM (optional) or DVD-RAM (optional)
-One half-high bay for a tape drive (optional)
-A maximum of five hot-swap slots:
-Two PCIe x8 slot, short card length
-One PCIe x8 slots, full card length
-Two PCIX DDR slots, full card length
-One GX+ slot (shares same space as PCIe x8 slot 1) (GX+ slot not available on a 1-core configuration)
-One GX++ slot (unshared) (available only on a 4-core configuration)
-One Power Supply, 950 Watt AC, Hot-swap, Base (redundant power optional)
Integrated:
-Service Processor FSP-1
-SAS/SATA controller
-Dual-port 10/100/1000 Mb Ethernet
+Optional Quad-port 10/100/1000 Mb Ethernet
+Optional Dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet
-Hot-swap and redundant cooling
-Three USB ports; two system ports
-Two HMC ports; two SPCN ports