1.3System specifications

The ASUS RS500A-E6/PS4 is a server featuring the ASUS KGNE-D16 server board. The server supports AMD® LGA 1944 Opteron™ 6100 series processors with HyperTransport™ technology, plus other latest technologies through the chipsets onboard.

Processor Support / System Bus

Core Logic

 

Total Slots

 

Capacity

Memory

Memory Type

 

Memory Size

Total PCI/PCI-X/

PCI-E Slots

Expansion Slots Slot Type Additional Slot

SATA Controller

Storage

SAS Controller

I = Internal

HDD Bays A or S will be hot-swappable

Networking LAN

Graphic VGA

2 x Socket G34 (LGA 1944)

8/12 Core AMD® Opteron™ 6100 Series (ACP<=80W)

HyperTransport™ Technology 3.0, 6.4 GT/s per link (triple link)

AMD® SR5650

AMD® SP5100

16 (4-channel per CPU)

Maximum up to 256GB (RDIMM) Maximum up to 64GB (UDIMM)

DDR3 800/1066/1333 UDIMM with ECC / non ECC DDR3 800/1066/1333 RDIMM

1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB (RDIMM) 1GB, 2GB, 4GB (UDIMM)

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Default Riser Card:

1 x PCI-E G2 x16 slot (G2 x16 link) (Full-Height/ Half-Length)

1 x PIKE Slot for Storage Enhancement

AMD® SP5100:

6 x SATA2 300MB/s ports

PROMISE® SW RAID (For Linux/Windows) Supports software RAID 0, 1, 10 & 5

Optional:

ASUS PIKE 1064E 4-port SAS RAID card ASUS PIKE 1078 8-port SAS HW RAID card ASUS PIKE 2008 8-port SAS2 6G RAID card ASUS PIKE 2008/IMR 8-port SAS2 6G RAID card

4 x Hot-Swap 3.5” SAS/SATA2 HDD Bays

2 x Intel® PCI-E GbE LAN (82574L)

1 x Mgmt LAN

Aspeed AST2050 8MB

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