Dell PowerEdge 1950: Complete the 0perating System Setup Technical Specifications Processor Expansion Bus Memory Drives

Complete the 0perating System Setup

If you purchased a preinstalled operating system, see the operating system documentation that ships

with your system. To install an operating system for the first time, see the Quick Installation Guide.

Be sure the operating system is installed before installing hardware or software not purchased with

the system.

Technical Specifications

Processor

Processor type One or two dual-core Intel Xeon

processors 5000 Sequence

Expansion Bus

Bus type PCI-X, PCIe

Expansion slots via riser card:

PCI-X Center and Left Risers

Two full-height, half-length 3.3-V, 64-bit, 133-MHz

or

or

PCIe Center and Left Risers

Two x8 lane width

Memory

Architecture PC2-4200 533MHz fully-buffered DIMMs with ECC

protection, with two-way lockstep operation (PC2-5300

667 MHz fully-buffered DIMMs when available)

Memory module sockets Eight 240-pin

Memory module capacities 256 MB, 512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB , 4 GB

Minimum RAM 512 MB (two 256-MB module)

Maximum RAM 32 GB

Drives

SAS or SATA hard drives Up to two 3.5-inch, internal, hot-plug, (optional) with

backplane support

or or

SAS hard drives Up to four 2.5-inch, internal, hot-plug, (optional) with

backplane support

Optical drive One optional slimline IDE CD-ROM, DVD-ROM/CD-RW

combination, or DVD-ROM

NOTE: DVD devices are data only

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