Key Features - Lenovo ThinkServer TS450 Product Manual

Key features

The ThinkServer TS450 server is a tower server that has been optimized to provide enterprise-class features
to growing small-to-medium-sized businesses, retail stores, and distributed enterprises.
Scalability and performance
The TS450 offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs:
The Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v5 improves productivity by offering affordable single-socket
system performance with 4-core processors with up to 3.7 GHz core speeds and up to 8 MB cache.
Intelligent and adaptive system performance with Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 allows processor
cores to run at maximum speeds during peak workloads by temporarily going beyond processor
thermal design power (TDP).
Intel Hyper-Threading Technology boosts performance for multithreaded applications by enabling
simultaneous multithreading within each processor core, up to two threads per core.
Intel Virtualization Technology integrates hardware-level virtualization hooks that allow operating
system vendors to better use the hardware for virtualization workloads.
Up to four 2133 MHz DDR4 ECC UDIMMs provide speed and capacity of up to 64 GB.
The server offers PCI Express 3.0 I/O expansion capabilities that increase the theoretical maximum
bandwidth by almost 100% (8 GTps per link using 128b/130b encoding) compared to the PCI
Express 2.0 (5 GTps per link using 8b/10b encoding).
With Intel Integrated I/O Technology, the PCI Express 3.0 controller is integrated into the Intel Xeon
processor E3-1200 v5 product family. Such integration reduces I/O latency and increases overall
system performance.
Up to 16x 2.5-inch, or 8x 3.5-inch, or a combination of 8x 2.5-inch and 4x 3.5-inch hot-swap (HS)
drive bays, including support for 2.5-inch SSDs in a 3.5-inch conversion tray, provide flexible internal
storage configurations and capacity.
The use of solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of, or along with, traditional spinning drives (hard disk
drives or HDDs) can significantly improve I/O performance.
Availability and serviceability
The TS450 provides many features to simplify serviceability and increase system uptime:
The TS450 supports UDIMM memory with ECC protection which provides error correction not
available in PC-class "servers" that use parity memory. Avoiding system crashes (and data loss) due
to soft memory errors means greater system uptime.
Tool-less cover removal provides easy access to upgrades and serviceable parts, such as memory
and adapter cards.
A choice of affordable onboard SATA RAID or advanced hardware RAID redundancy offers data
protection and greater system uptime.
The use of SSDs can provide better reliability than the use of traditional HDDs, for greater uptime.
Built-in Active Management Technology continuously monitors system parameters, sends alerts, and
enables administrators to perform remote recovery actions to minimize downtime.
The ThinkServer EasyUpdate firmware update tool enables you to keep your server firmware up-to-
date and helps you avoid unnecessary server outages.
The ThinkServer Diagnostics software speeds up troubleshooting tasks to reduce service time.
One-year or three-year customer-replaceable unit (CRU) and onsite limited warranty with next
business day response. Optional service upgrades are available.
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