Dell Poweredge R220 review
We have used the Dell R200, R210, R210 II so were looking forward to getting our hands on the R220.
Externally nothing much has changed, you get a slightly different status display and a grey bezel that matches the other next gen Dell Poweredge servers.
The R210II was based on the Ivy bridge architecture and the R220 is based on Haswell this is the codename for the Intel processor microarchitecture that is the successor to the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture.
Most Haswell products are branded as 4th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors for client systems, and Intel® Xeon® v3 Processors for server systems, in addition to some Pentium and Celeron-branded processors. Haswell is built on the 22-nm manufacturing process (lithography). Intel officially announced processors with this microarchitecture in 2013. Haswell delivers significant performance advancements over previous architectures, including improved graphics, battery life, and security.
The Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 v3 family featuring 33 percent more cache per core. This help improve response times with up to 32GB of memory in four DIMM slots and boost data-transfer speeds with latest-generation PCIe Gen3 I/O.
We also see a new raid controller, the PERC H310, this replaces the old PERC H210. The R220 is no enterprise player thanks to the lack of redundant power and hot swap drives but represents a good mix of cost vs performance.
