The Dell Precision 490 is a fully-featured high-performance workstation with a compact, flexible chassis design. With excellent scalability for its size, the 490 offers up to two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® 64-bit processors, up to 32GB of memory in four fully-buffered DIMM channels and a wide range of high-performance OpenGL graphics cards. This all means that the Dell Precision 490 is an excellent choice for critical, compute-intensive workstation environments where space is a concern.
Helpful features include:
- Up to 1.5TB of internal storage with RAID 0, 1, and optional RAID 5 support.
- Flexibility and expandability: multiple Dual-Core Xeon processors and up to 32GB quad-channel memory.
- Low-cost & small-footprint workstation ideal for tasks that don't require the absolute in cutting-edge hardware.
Dell Precision 490 Technical Specifications
Form Factor: |
Desktop tower |
Processors: |
Up to two Quad-Core or Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® 5100/5300 series processors |
Chipset: |
Intel 5000X |
Memory: |
Up to 32GB (8 DIMM slots): 512MB1GB/2GB/4GB DDR2 533MHz |
Graphics: |
Optional NVIDIA Quadro and ATI FireGL graphics cards |
Drive controller: |
Optional PERC5/i or PERC6/i |
RAID controller: |
The latest generation of storage technology is SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), which delivers up to 50% higher performance than SATA 10K.
The Dell Precision 490 supports up to three hard drives for a potential capacity of 1.5TB. And with RAID 0, 1 and 5 options, you can configure your storage to meet your needs, whether it's for storing extremely large files, backing them up, or helping to improve performance with data-striping. |
Drive Bays: |
2 Internal 3.5" hard disk drive bays |
NIC: |
Onboard |
Hard Drives: |
SATA 3.0Gb/s 7200RPM with 16MB DataBurst Cache up to 500GB
SATA 3.0Gb/s 7200RPM with 8MB DataBurst Cache up to 250GB
SATA 10K RPM with 16MB DataBurst Cache up to 160GB
SAS 10K RPM up to 300GB; SAS 15K RPM up to 146GB |
Power: |
750 Watt |
More information about its specs can be found on the official
Dell Precision 490 Spec Sheet.
