In older 36-bay systems, this required either hand/ arm contortions or a lot of disassembled. It also provides a way to service the components under the motherboard. At the same time, it means Gigabyte can make a single chassis and swap different platforms in. There are enough wires attached, as you will see in our Internal Overview that this is unlikely to be a casual service option. Gigabyte S452 Z30 Rear Sheet Metal Joint Near Tab This may not seem evident but one can actually undo many screws on the side of the chassis, then pull the motherboard section out. In hyper-scale data centers such as with Facebook’s OCP platforms, green signals a surface designed to be handled. Gigabyte S452 Z30 Rear Expansion Slotsīefore we get to the Internal Overview, we wanted to point out the green tabs. We are going to discuss these slots in more detail in our Internal Overview section. There is another slot in the middle of the rear I/O and that is an OCP NIC 2.0 slot. The S452-Z30 does not have full-height slots, but that is common in the 36-bay form factor. The other item we see is an array of low-profile expansion slots. This is a great job by the Gigabyte team to use the more costly, but better NIC here. The 1GbE ports are controlled via an Intel i350-AM2 NIC which is a significantly better option than two Intel i210-at NICs.
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On the rear I/O panel we get legacy serial and VGA connectors, three USB 3.0 Type-A ports, a management LAN port, and two 1GbE ports.
One can put a pair of Optane SSDs for write caching and large TLC/ QLC drives in the system for read cache drives while mirroring both pairs. Above the motherboard, we have four 2.5″ NVMe/ SATA hybrid drive bays. These are primarily for the OS boot media. The 2.5″ drive configuration on the rear is certainly more modern than we have seen previously. Although this feels like a big system, its power requirements are relatively reasonable in large part due to the single socket AMD EPYC 7002 design. Gigabyte S452 Z30 Rear 3.5 In Drive BaysĪbove the 3.5″ bay section we see two 1.2kW 80Plus Platinum power supplies. These are also tool-less and SAS/SATA just like the front panel drive bays. Starting with the bottom drive bays, there are 12x 3.5″ drive bays. Moving to the rear of the unit, there is a lot going on. As we will see, the rest of the server is fairly forward-looking but this is a small detail that would go a long way in perception.
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In the future, we hope Gigabyte can update this rack-ear design and make small changes to the button and the exposed wiring. This is going to work fine and we tried seeing if we could intentionally hit the cables when inserting a drive but were not able to. Gigabyte S452 Z30 Front Red Button And WiresĪlso, if we look between the rack ear and the drive trays we can see some exposed wiring going from the chassis to the rack ear. The red button has more space than we are used to around it which gives it a bit of a lower-quality feel. On the left front rack ear, we have a number of buttons. This can save hours in configuration and servicing time so this is certainly a high-point of the solution. Otherwise, 4 screws per tray and 42 trays mean we save 168 screws thanks to this design. The one exception is if you want to directly mount a 2.5″ drive to a 3.5″ drive bay. Something awesome about this generation is that Gigabyte has switched to tool-less drive trays for all 42 hot-swap bays. One of the key advantages of the 4U 36-bay form factor is that the entire system is only 625mm deep which means it can fit in relatively short racks compared to many top-loading systems. There are also two USB 3.0 ports on the right rack ear. The front of the 4U chassis is dominated by 24x 3.5″ bays. We are then going to discuss the internal components that make the server work. First, we are going to discuss the external features of the system. Lately, we have been splitting our hardware overview section into two parts.
In our review, we clearly have a ton of ground to cover, so let us get to it. Unlike storage servers of yesterday, this PCIe Gen4 platform utilizes a single AMD EPYC 7002 (and presumably future EPYC 7003) processor greatly reducing cost while still providing more connectivity than a dual-socket Intel Xeon solution. More importantly, those bays do not include the internal storage and expansion options making this a very expandable platform.
While it will be classified as a 36-bay system, the Gigabyte S452-Z30 actually has 42 hot-swap bays. As time progressed, organizations sought greater density and we started seeing servers offer storage on both sides of the chassis with 36x 3.5″ bays being common. Years ago, the 4U 24-bay 3.5″ storage server was a popular offering.
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