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PowerEdge T110 II Technical Guide 9
2 New Technologies

2.1 Overview

The PowerEdge T110 II uses the latest Intel® C202 chipset and supports the Intel Xeon® processor
E3-1200 product family and the Intel Core™ i3-2100 product family.
New technologies include the following:
Significant performance improvement (up to 25%) over previous generation
Twice the memory footprint at 32GB
Direct Media Interface (DMI) Gen 2
Support for up to four 3.5‖ SAS, nearline SAS, or SATA drives; support for up to six 2.5‖ SAS or
SSD hard drives (six 2.5‖ hard drive support available Q2 2011)

2.2 Processor Features

The Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 product family features:
New micro architecture on 32 nm processor provides higher performance and lower power
Next generation Intel® Turbo Boost Technology
Dynamic Turbo
Dual-core and quad-core processing
New Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for improved encryption and decryption
performance