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| 1. What is one of the
biggest features of the SR104 over other products in the server market?
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| It was not designed by multiple companies lacking a common
focus. The SR104 was designed by Gigabyte for market entry, ultra high
density, rack optimized operating environments. The goal - eliminate the
technical obstacles that arise when using assemblies designed and
manufactured by multiple manufacturers who lack a common focus and
direction. |
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| 2. What base technology does
Gigabyte bring to the SR104? |
| First Gigabyte is one of 3 motherboard manufacturers world
wide who have the design and manufacturing facilities plus the experience of
shipping over a 1 million motherboards a month. These are motherboards that
are executing virtually every operating system designed to be run on an
Intel based platform. Gigabyte then designed an efficient environment to put
the motherboard into, an environment based exclusively on a rack optimized
1U chassis design. |
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| 3. Why do you call the SR104 a
server platform? |
| A server platform is a product, made up with what we
classify as non-commodity components such as motherboard, chassis, power
supply, signal and power distribution systems with an efficient cooling
system. It is that stable platform that you add your commodity products such
as processor(s), memory, disk drive(s), OS and application software. |
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| 4. What Processors does the SR104
support? |
| The SR104 supports Intel Celeron or Pentium III Coppermine
or Tualatin processor with speeds in excess of 1.2GHz. |
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| 5. What chipset is Gigabyte using
in the SR104 and why? |
| We selected the VIA Apollo Pro chipset because it supports a
133MHz FSB bus for increased bandwidth, a high speed 133MHz memory bus with
their Virtual Channel Ram that uses registered SDRAM ECC DIMM or VC133 DRAM
for superior memory performance, flexible memory configurations at minimal
cost. These advanced memory technologies provide the bandwidth and
performance necessary for even the most demanding of applications. |
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| 6 .What options are available
for the SR104? |
| Two options are available, first is the System Console LCD
panel, second rack slides. |
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| 7. What operating systems does
the SR104 support? |
| Yes. We sell our products to the channel, OEM’s and
companies that private label products. We can put together a product and
support program to match the unique market needs of each class of customer. |
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| 8. Do you sell your products
to OEM’s or to companies who will private label products like your server
platforms? |
| Yes. We sell our products to the channel, OEM’s and
companies that private label products. We can put together a product and
support program to match the unique market needs of each class of customer. |
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| 9. Is the SR104 Microsoft
certified? |
| Our goal is to have it certified, at the time this page was
created, we had not started the process. |
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| 10. What type of drives can
we put into the SR104 drive bays? |
The internal drive bays were designed to handle any ULTRA
66/100 disk drives with a 5.25 in. footprint.
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| 11. What memory does the
SR104 use? |
Up to 2GB of PC133MHz, ECC SDRAM memory.
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| 12. How do I expand the
SR104 memory? |
Maximum memory configuration is attained by installing two
1024MB 133MHz registered ECC SDRAM DIMMs (one in each DIMM socket). Memory
can be expanded 1 DIMM module at a time.
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| 13. Why does the SR104 use
ECC SDRAM? |
| ECC SDRAM provides a higher level of data integrity than
non-ECC memory modules. Since the SR104 was designed for server
applications, data integrity is essential. |
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| 14. What are some of the
benefits of having a built in dual NIC controller? |
- Extra PCI slots - having dual embedded NIC cards does not consume PCI
slots. In a 1U rack optimized package, the SR104 can be applied to
applications not available to other manufacturers.
- Fail over - the dual NIC is able to work like a single NIC card. If
one should fail, the other takes over with users not experiencing any
difference in network performance.
- Load balancing - as mentioned above the dual NIC work like one, each
sharing the network traffic, effectively doubling the sever I/O bandwidth,
resulting in better network performance.
- Firewall- the dual NIC configuration has the capability to provide
firewall function by using one NIC port for outside Internet and the other
for local area traffic.
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| 15. Are the SR104’s dual
10/100 Ethernet controllers auto-detecting? |
| Yes. The server class Intel Ethernet chipsets provides dual
Ethernet controllers that automatically detect a 10Mbps or 100Mbps transfer
rate. |
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| 16. Does the SR104 contain
any internal monitoring and reporting functions? |
| Yes. The SR104 has an ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power
Interface) function built into the motherboard. Some of the functions
monitored by the ACPI function monitors are the presence of a second CPU,
fan speed & temperature for each CPU, system temperature & Voltages. If the
installed operating system supports the ACPI function, as Windows does, the
operating can perform tasks like automatically power itself off if the CPU
temperature exceeds pre-selected limits. |
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| 17.What is DOM?
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| DOM is an abbreviation for Disk On a Module. It is a 100%
solid state device that plugs into an IDE/ATA drive cable connector and can
be used in place of a disk drive. To the server it looks and functions just
like a small IDE/ATA disk drive. It is a small PCB assembly containing a
programmable chip that emulates an IDE/ATA disk drive. You program your
operating system and application into the DOM assembly and then plug it into
a drive power and signal cable. The DOM assembly is ready to be used by the
server. |
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| 18. What applications could I
use the SR104 with a DOM in? |
| You could use them in embedded applications such as router,
firewall and NAS devices. The purpose of the DOM is to reduce the cost of
these devices (which are sometimes referred to as appliance servers) without
impacting their performance or reliability. |
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| 19.Can I use the DOM on one
drive port and a standard IDE/ATA drive on another drive port?
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| Yes, because the DOM functions like a disk drive, it does
not impact the operation of any IDE/ATA device that you have or will
install. |
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