The ThinkSystem ST250 V2 is a mainstream 1-socket tower server that can also be rack mounted as a rack server. It is ideal for small and medium businesses, remote offices, branch offices, banking and the public sector. The server supports one Intel Xeon processor of the E-2300 series (formerly codenamed "Rocket Lake") or Intel Pentium ("Comet Lake Refresh") and up to 128 GB of TruDDR4 ECC memory with a frequency of 3200 MHz. Main functions and parameters Intel Xeon E-2300 series ("Rocket Lake-E") processors with up to 8 cores and core speeds up to 3.7 GHz Up to four 3200 MHz DDR4 ECC UDIMMs provide speed and capacity of up to 128 GB Four PCIe slots for I/O expansion, one of which has the new PCIe Gen4 interface to maximize I/O performance. Up to 16 bays for 2.5-inch hot-swappable drives Up to 8 hot-swappable 3.5-inch drive bays Up to 4x 3.5" + 8x 2.5" drive bays Up to 8 bays for 3.5-inch SATA drives Up to 7 bays for 3.5-inch SATA drives + 1 bay for 3.5-inch NVMe drives Using Solid State Drives (SSDs) instead of or alongside traditional Hard Drives (HDDs) can significantly improve I/O performance. An SSD can support up to 100 times more I/O operations per second (IOPS) than a typical HDD New high-speed RAID controllers from Lenovo and Broadcom provide 12 Gb SAS connectivity to disk backplanes It offers two 5.25-inch media bays with support for optical drives or backup drives Supports two M.2 drives to support OS booting with VROC RAID redundancy The server has two integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports The server offers one PCIe 4.0 slot plus three PCIe 3.0 I/O expansion slots Support for NVIDIA GPUs for higher workload performance Specifications Processor Xeon E-2356G 6C 80W 3.2G Memory 1x 32GB Drive Controller 5350-8i Position for discs 8x 2.5-in HS/Open?bay Add'l cards Opt DVD Open Power supply 1x 750W, HS/2 TT Power cable Yes XCC Ent