Dell Enterprise Systems Group Page 1 February 2004 INFOBrief Dell™ PowerEdge™ 1600SC Key Points The Dell™ PowerEdge™ 1600SC delivers a combination of performance and availability at aggressive prices, which makes it ideal for workgroup server environments. • The PowerEdge 1600SC is a 2P tower server delivering performance for file and print management and applications: − Dual 2.4GHz (and above) IntelXeon™ processors with up to 2MB L3 cache, 533MHz FSB − Up to 4GB of ECC DDR memory
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INFOBrief Dell™ PowerEdge™ 1600SC
Key Points
The Dell™ PowerEdge™ 1600SC delivers a combination of performance and availability at aggressive prices, which makes it ideal for workgroup server environments.
• The PowerEdge 1600SC is a 2P tower server delivering performance for file and print management and applications:
− Dual 2.4GHz (and above) Intel Xeon™ processors with up to 2MB L3 cache, 533MHz FSB
− Up to 4GB of ECC DDR memory
− Intel Gigabit1 Ethernet LAN on Motherboard (LOM)
• The PowerEdge 1600SC delivers expandability for growth:
− Up to nearly one Terabyte of storage (6 x 146GB SCSI= 876GB)
− 6 PCI slots: 2 x 64bit/100MHz (PCI-X); 2 x 64/66; 2 x 32bit/33MHz
• The PowerEdge 1600SC offers availability features to help minimize server downtime:
− Hot-plug hard drives (optional)
− RAID options, including support for PERC4/SC, PERC 3/SC and CERC add-in cards
− Hot plug, redundant power supplies (optional)
− Supports Adaptive Load Balancing or Failover with optional additional NICs
− Server-class SCSI tape backup with Dell’s full range of internal tape backup software supported
• The PowerEdge 1600SC offers a choice of tested, validated and supported operating systems: Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, Microsoft® Windows® 2003 Small Business Server, Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server, Windows 2000 SBS, Novell® NetWare® 6.5, and Red Hat® Linux ES3.0.
• The PowerEdge 1600SC offers server management features:
− Embedded Server Management hardware monitors voltage, temperature, and fan RPM (requires loading of OpenManage™ Server Agents to monitor and report this data to management consoles)
− “Automatic recovery” reboots the server in the event of an operating system hang (requires the loading of Server Agents)
− Comprehensive suite of server management software applications
− Plug-ins for enterprise management consoles
− DRAC III/XT option allowing for full remote access
1 This term indicates compliance with IEEE standard 802.3ab for Gigabit Ethernet, and does not connote actual operating speed of 1 Gb/sec. For high speed transmission, connection to a Gigabit Ethernet server and network infrastructure is required.
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Product Description
The PowerEdge 1600SC is a highly-flexible, entry-level, dual processor workgroup class server. It is designed to meet the needs of small-to-medium organizations as well as workgroups and remote offices in large corporations and organizations. The PowerEdge 1600SC introduces a new level of functionality into the entry-level dual processor workgroup segment by offering the latest in processing, I/O, and storage technologies, and more high availability features. The technology enhancements, availability features, and best-in-class internal hot pluggable storage capacity make the PowerEdge 1600SC one of the most flexible entry-level dual-processor workgroup servers on the market.
PowerEdge 1600SC Overview of Key Features
Table 1 details the PowerEdge 1600SC’s key features.
Table 1 Overview of PowerEdge 1600SC Features Feature Standard Optional Benefit
Processor Intel Xeon™ Processor
Up to 2 Intel Xeon Processors
Performance: Xeon processors provide high performance through 533MHz Front Side Bus, fast clock speeds, up to 2MB L3 cache
Chipset ServerWorks GC_SL
Performance and scalability: supports Xeon processors, and more I/O bandwidth than prior high-end chipsets from ServerWorks
PCI 6 slots total (2x64-bit/100MHz PCI-X, 2x64-bit/66MHz and 2x32-bit/33MHz PCI)
Scalability and Performance: six I/O slots provide room for additional functionality and future expansion; 64-bit PCI slots provide bandwidth to support maximum performance of next-generation peripheral devices (RAID cards, Gigabit Ethernet); two 5V slots support legacy PCI cards
Embedded SCSI
Single channel Ultra320
Performance: Ultra320 SCSI provides twice the throughput as Ultra160 SCSI
RAID PERC4/SC (SCSI), PERC3/SC (SCSI), CERC (IDE)
Price, Performance and Availability: Low-cost PCI RAID options provide an excellent means of increasing performance and/or data availability.
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Feature Standard Optional Benefit
Availability System monitoring, easy-access chassis, ECC memory
Hot-plug and redundant power, Hot-plug and redundant hard drives, RAID
Redundancy and Availability: helps provide maximum uptime by ensuring that at least one key component is running at all times and if one fails, it can be replaced quickly while the system is running (hot-plug/redundant options)
Management Integrated system monitoring, Dell OpenManage suite of software
Dell Remote Access Card (DRACIII/XT) for remote monitoring and management
Remote Manageability: DRACIII/XT allows an administrator in one location to take control of a server at a different location (dial in/dial out to console capability via NIC), console redirection, view event logs for diagnosis purposes, system reset and power cycling, server failure accessibility
Intel Copper 10/100/1000 Gigabit and 10/100 and Broadcom Copper 10/100/1000 Gigabit
Price and Performance: embedded standard Gigabit Ethernet helps provide fast network connection; failover and load balancing supported with additional NICs and advanced driver sets
Form Factor 5U Tower (17.6”H x 8.6”W x 22.5”D)
Space Saving: focused performance and availability in a compact chassis
Markets/Applications
The PowerEdge 1600SC is designed from the ground up as an ideal solution for small-to-medium businesses and remote sites that require dual processor performance and high-availability features from one or a few servers in one location.
Small businesses and organizations
File/print server LAN infrastructure Microsoft Small Business Server E-mail/Groupware Database server Shared Internet access
Medium/large businesses and organizations
Distributed workgroup file/print server LAN infrastructure Small workgroup application server
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High availability remote/branch office usage Key Customer Benefits
Performance The PowerEdge 1600SC incorporates the Intel Xeon processors, ServerWorks GC-SL chipset, PC2100 DDR SDRAM, PCI-X and Ultra320 SCSI. Advantages of these performance features include:
• The Intel Xeon processor with up to 2MB cache brings revolutionary advancements in technology to dual processor servers with NetBurst™ micro-architecture and Hyper-Threading Technology.
• The GC-SL chipset supports dual Xeon processors and Intel NetBurst microarchitecture, providing a 533 MHz system bus for performance for dual-processor-multi-threaded applications or multitasking environments.
• Hyper-Threading – which allows the OS to view the processor as two logical processors – helps improve performance because multiple tasks can be run simultaneously. As a result, the technology is designed to enable a platform to support more users or process more transactions than a processor without this technology.
• PC2100 DDR SDRAM memory channels offer a maximum memory bandwidth of 3.2 GB/s through a 144-bit wide, 266 MHz Double Data Rate SDRAM memory interface.
• The next generation I/O, PCI eXtended (PCI-X or PCIx), provides high bandwidth, low latency, and dedicated hardware interfaces between internal chips and peripheral cards. There are 2 PCI-X slots on the PowerEdge 1600SC – 2 x 64-bit/100MHz – in addition to 4 PCI slots for 6 total slots.
• The PowerEdge 1600SC includes an embedded Gigabit Ethernet NIC. The embedded Gigabit NIC provides customers with a cost effective, high performance solution when used as the primary LAN controller. The embedded NIC is backward compatible to 10/100 Mb/s speeds.
System Availability The PowerEdge 1600SC offers system availability features like an ECC memory, systems monitoring hardware, optional hot-plug hard drives, optional hot plug power supplies, optional remote management, optional SCSI or IDE TBU, and optional SCSI and IDE RAID choices.
• PowerEdge 1600SC makes protecting data through RAID flexible and affordable. The 1600SC supports the PERC 4/SC and PERC3/SC RAID
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PCI cards for SCSI RAID or the CERC RAID PCI card for IDE RAID. Either of these add-in options provides the flexibility of RAID levels 0, 1, or 5, factory configured, all at an affordable price.
Table 2 Comparison of RAID Options for the PowerEdge 1600SC
• PowerEdge 1600SC can be configured with easy-to-service, hot plug redundant power supplies. This option helps maximize system uptime by providing a second power supply to keep the server up-and-running in the event of a power supply failure.
• Dell PowerVaultTM Tape backup products are designed to back up large amounts of data, easily manage backups and restores and the investment protection required to grow. The PowerEdge 1600SC supports either SCSI or IDE internal tape drives. External storage is not supported.
Scalability Scalability features for the PowerEdge 1600SC include an optional second processor, increased memory (up to 4GB), internal storage, and additional PCI cards.
• The PowerEdge 1600SC is scalable to 4GB of DDR SDRAM, allowing server memory to increase as application demands increase.
• Six I/O slots provide room for additional functionality and future expansion.
• The PowerEdge 1600SC has the potential for up to nearly one Terabyte of storage, with 876GB maximum SCSI internal hard disk storage.
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PowerEdge Family Comparisons
Comparison of PowerEdge 1600SC vs. PowerEdge 1400SC and 1500SC
PowerEdge 1600SC builds on the success of the PowerEdge 1400SC and 1500SC by providing customers with Xeon processor capability and several optional high availability features. Table 3 shows how the PowerEdge 1600SC sizes up to its predecessors, the PowerEdge 1400SC and 1500SC.
Table 3 Feature Comparison of PowerEdge 1600SC versus 1400SC and 1500SC
RAID support PERC3/SC and DCL CERC ATA100/4CH (IDE)
PERC3/SC PERC 4/SC PERC3/SC CERC ATA100/4CH (IDE)
High Avail. Clustering
No clustering No clustering No clustering
Rackable chassis Not rackable Not rackable Not rackable
Management LM81
OpenManage software
LM81
OpenManage software
ADM 1026
OpenManage software Optional DRACIII/XT
Comparison of PowerEdge 1600SC vs. PowerEdge 600SC and 2600
The PowerEdge 1600SC complements the uni-processor PowerEdge 600SC and the dual processor PowerEdge 2600, and all three products combined will address a majority of the entry and mainstream tower server markets. The following identifies the key points of differentiation between the PowerEdge 1600SC and the tower-optimized servers that are positioned above and below it.
2 For hard drives, GB means 1 billion bytes; accessible capacity varies with operating environment.
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Comparison of the PowerEdge 1600SC vs. PowerEdge 2600
The main criteria that differentiate the entry workgroup and mainstream workgroup segment are the levels of performance, availability and scalability that the server provides as well as the price point the customers are willing to pay for these features. Table 4 illustrates how the feature set of the PowerEdge 1600SC compares to Dell’s mainstream server offering, the PowerEdge 2600.
Table 4 Feature Comparison of PowerEdge 1600SC and 2600
Features PowerEdge 1600SC PowerEdge 2600
Processor Dual Intel® Xeon™ FC-PGA
2.4 GHz 512K L2 cache
2.8 GHz 512K L2 cache
3.06 GHz up to 1MB L3 cache
3.2 GHz up to 2MB L3 cache
Dual Intel® Xeon FC-PGA
2.4 GHz 512K L2 cache
2.8 GHz 512K L2 cache
3.06GHz up to 1MB L3cache
3.2 GHz up to 2MB L3 cache
Chipset ServerWorks GC-SL Intel E7501
Front Side Bus 533MHz 533MHZ
I/O Channels 6 total:
2xPCI-X slots (64-bit/100MHz)
2x64-bit/66MHZ, 2x32-bit/33MHz
7 total:
6 x PCI-X slots (2x64-bit/133MHz and 4x64-bit/100MHz)
1 x32-bit/33Mhz PCI slot
Availability Features
Hot-plug hard drives (optional)
ECC memory
Hot-plug, redundant power (optional)
Tool-less chassis
Hot-plug hard drives
ECC memory
Hot-plug, redundant power (optional)
Hot-plug, redundant cooling
Embedded RAID with battery backed cache (optional)
Tool-less chassis
HA 2 node cluster support
Min/Max Memory
128MB / 4GB DDR 266 ECC SDRAM
4 DIMM sockets
256MB / 12GB DDR 266 ECC SDRAM 6 DIMM sockets;
2 way interleaved
Internal Storage Scalability
Up to 6 x 1” hot-plug (optional) SCSI drives, or up to 4 IDE drives.
Up to 876GB SCSI or 480GB IDE internal storage
Up to 8 x 1” (6+2) hot-plug SCSI drives Up to 1.168GB maximum internal storage
Option for 2 x 3 split backplane
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Features PowerEdge 1600SC PowerEdge 2600
Internal Storage Performance
10K and 15K RPM U320 SCSI drives or IDE drives
10K and 15K RPM U320 SCSI drives
External Hard Drive Storage
None PowerVault 2XXS
PowerVault 6XX
Dell/EMC products
Embedded SCSI (HDDs)
Single-channel U320 Dual-channel U320 with option for external routing
Embedded IDE (HDDs)
ATA100 None
RAID Support PERC4/SC Single channel U320 RAID controller with 64MB of cache.
PERC3/SC Single channel U160 RAID controller with 32MB of cache.
CERC (quad-channel ATA RAID controller)
PERC4/Di (embedded dual channel U320 RAID with 128MB of battery-backed cache)
Video Embedded ATI Rage XL (8MB) Embedded ATI Rage XL (8MB)
USB Performance
1.1 1. 1
Networking Single embedded Intel Gigabit NIC
Optional add-in: Intel PRO\100 S NIC, Intel PRO\1000 XT NIC, Broadcom 5703 (10/100/1000) NIC
Conexant V.92 PCI soft modem
Single embedded Intel Gigabit NIC
Optional add-in: Intel PRO\100 S NIC, Intel PRO\1000 XT NIC, Broadcom 5703 (10/100/1000) NIC
Conexant V.92 PCI soft modem
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Features PowerEdge 1600SC PowerEdge 2600
High Availability Clustering
Not Supported Yes
Chassis Tool-less Tower (not rackable) Tool-less in a rackable tower (rack kit optional)
Power Supply 2 x 450W redundant (1+1) 2 x 730W redundant (1 + 1)
Systems Management
Integrated server monitoring (ADM1026); OpenManage support
Embedded Server Management III OpenManage support
Active ID (front) Remote Management
Optional Dell Remote Assistant Card (DRACIII/XT)
Optional Embedded Remote Access (ERA/O)
Chassis Dimensions
17.61”H x 8.57”W x 22.53”D (44.73cm x 21.77cm x 57.23cm)
17.61”H x 8.57”W x 22.53”D (44.73cm x 21.77cm x 57.23cm)
Chassis Weight
73 lbs (max config) 90 lbs (max config)
Rack Support None 4-post Dell rack and 3rd party Versa-Rails
Comparison of the PowerEdge 1600SC vs. PowerEdge 600SC
The PowerEdge 600SC is Dell’s sub-entry workgroup server offering. Like its name implies, the sub-entry segment is the most price-sensitive segment. Generally, these products are designed for use for non-mission-critical applications since the extremely low price point prevents the inclusion of dual processing and some availability and scalability features. Table 5 compares the feature-set of the PowerEdge 600SC to the PowerEdge 1600SC.
Table 5 Feature Comparison of PowerEdge 1600SC and 600SC
17.61”H x 8.57”W x 22.53”D (44.73cm x 21.77cm x 57.23cm)
Chassis Weight (ave config)
37 lbs (avg config) 73 lbs (max config)
Rack Support None None
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technologies can bring valuable assistance and expertise to a computing environment.
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United States:
Standard Service and Support
• One-year limited warranty4 supplemented with one year of standard Next Business Day on-site5 labor and parts replacement
• 30-day Getting Started Technical Support6 Program • 7-day/24-hour One-Year Telephone Technical Support for
troubleshooting and diagnosis of Dell hardware • 7-day/24-hour Online Support Services
Optional Support
• Deployment Services are designed to allow IT resources to focus on more strategic projects, saving both time and effort. Dellʹs Custom Factory Integration services custom-configure systems within Dellʹs ISO 9002 manufacturing process. When a system ships, Dellʹs Installation services can help ensure a timely delivery and deployment.
• Premier Enterprise Support Services (http://www.dell.com/us/en/gen/services/service_PESStiers.htm) offer tiered service offerings to address requirements across a range of computing environments. Premier Enterprise Support offers four tiers of service: Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze, which encompasses varying levels of services.
• Same-Day, On-Site5 Hardware Support
• DirectLine™ and DirectLine Plus Software Support
• OpenManage™ Subscription Services
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6 30-day telephone support program is at no additional charge to help customers with installation optimization and configuration questions during the critical 30-day period after shipment of PowerEdge systems. This program is available to customers who purchase Novell NetWare® or Microsoft Windows NT Server or Windows 2000 Server with their PowerEdge server from Dell. Support provided after the 30-day Getting Started Program will be for only the Dell hardware. Beyond 30 days from the invoice date, Dell’s DirectLine telephone support service is available for purchase for NOS support.
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