Dell 
PowerEdge T310 Technical Guide      7 
   
1.2  Product Comparison 
Table 1 shows a product comparison for the PowerEdge T310, PowerEdge T300, and PowerEdge 
T410 servers. 
Table 1.  Comparison for PowerEdge Servers 
Feature/Spec  PowerEdge T310  PowerEdge T300 (Predecessor) 
PowerEdge T410 
( Next level up) 
Processor 
Intel
®
 Xeon
®
 3400 series  
Intel
®
 desktop processors:Intel 
Core i3 540  
Intel
®
 Core i3 530  
Intel
®
 Pentium G6950  
Intel
®
 Celeron G1101  
 
Quad-Core Intel
®
 Xeon
®
 Processor 
5400 Series 
2S Intel
®
 Xeon
®
 
Processor 5500 
series 
Front Side Bus 
DMI  1333  QPI @ 6.4 GT/s 
# Processors 
1  1  1 to 2 
# Cores 
Intel
®
 Xeon
®
: Quad and Dual 
Desktop processor: Dual 
Dual or Quad  Dual or Quad 
L2/L3 Cache 
Intel
®
 Xeon
®
: 8M 
Desktop proc: 4, 3 or 2M 
Intel
®
 12M Advanced Smart Cache 
(shared cache which features 6MB 
Smart Cache per core pair) 
4MB or 8MB 
Chipset 
Intel
®
 3420  Intel
®
 Chipset for LV and ULV dual 
core Xeons + ICH9R 
Intel
®
 5520  
DIMMs 
6 R-DIMMs or  
4 U-DIMMs 
6 R-DIMMs  4+4 DDR3 
Unbuffered w/ECC 
or Registered 
w/ECC 
1333/1066/800MHz 
Min/Max RAM 
1GB/32GB  512MB/24GB  1GB/64GB 
HD Bays 
4 x 3.5” 
Optional hot-swap 
Or 2.5” SAS/ SSD via hot-
swap chassis  
4 x 3.5” 
Optional hot-swap 
 
6 x 3.5” 
Optional hot-swap 
support 2.5" HDDs 
via hot-swap tray 
HD Types 
SATA/SAS/SSD  SATA/SAS  Default SATA; 
Optional SAS and 
SSD via add-in 
controller  
Ext Drive Bay(s) 
2 x 5.25” bay  2 x 5.25” bay  2 x 5.25” bay 
Int. HD 
Controller 
Intel
®
 3420 
 
PERC S100 (Embedded SW 
RAID) 
ICH9R  Chipset-based 
SATA 
Opt. HD 
Controller 
NON-RAID: 
SAS 5/E  
NON-RAID: 
SAS 5/E 
NON-RAID: 
SAS 5/E