Figure 3. 8 x 3.5 inch drive system
Introduction
The PowerEdge R7425 is a general-purpose platform with highly expandable memory up to 4 TB, and impressive I/O capabilities to
match.
The R7425 is packed with the following features:
• Up to 8 channels with 2 DIMMs per channel per CPU and 32 DIMMs in total, DDR4 with ECC up to 2667 MT/s.
• Integrated USB and integrated storage controllers.
• Highly optimized air ow design enables tremendous conguration exibility and industrial leading energy eciency.
• Out of band management architecture facilitating rapid bare metal deployment regardless of OS state.
• Integrated PCI Express Gen 3 for improved bandwidth and connectivity.
• Highly optimized cache structure for high performance, energy ecient compute.
• Embedded SupportAssist reducing troubleshooting and downtime with embedded diagnostic and automated case creation.
• Supports complete lifecycle management with the OpenManage portfolio of systems management solutions, including leading
remote management with iDRAC9 and Lifecycle Controller.
New technologies
The following are the new technologies featured on the PowerEdge R7425:
Table 1. New technologies
New technology Detailed description
AMD Naples socket SP3 compatible processor The AMD Naples socket SP3 compatible processor features
with highly scalable up to 32-core System on Chip (SoC) design.
Supports for two high-performance threads per core.
For details, see the Processor section.
2666 MT/s DDR4 memory The PowerEdge R6415 system supports 32 DDR4 registered
DIMM (RDIMMs) and load reduced DIMM (LRDIMMs) slots.
Supported memory bus frequencies are 2667 MT/s, 2400 MT/s,
2133 MT/s, and 1866 MT/s.
The R7425 system supports:
• 16 x DDR4 Channels per socket
• Two DIMM per channel (2DPC)
• Up to 2666 MT/s (conguration-dependent)
• RDIMMs up to 32 GB
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