IT Pro have just tried and tested our new Boston Fenway 2224-0T server, here's what they thought..
Boston's Fenway 2224-0T is a server aimed at businesses that want something of everything. This 2U rack system combines the latest E5-2600 v4 Xeons with fast 2,400MHz DDR4 memory, soups it up with a healthy dose of NVMe SSD storage and delivers it all at a sensible price.
It's an all-Supermicro system comprising its SuperServer 6028U-TNRT+ rack platform. You don't get to choose your motherboard as the chassis is specifically designed for the X10DRU-i+ model with Supermicro supplying the system fully assembled.
This is because the four front drive bays to the right are dedicated to NVMe SSD storage with orange markers on the carriers to denote this. The drive backplane has four dedicated connectors cabled to a riser card at the rear. The riser card is plugged into a row of proprietary PCI-Express slots on the motherboard.
The system is also only available with two processors installed. The reason is quite simple as it uses CPU1 to activate the NVMe riser card and CPU2 to enable the standard PCI-Express riser cards across the way.
Read the full review here.