- The latest Intel® Xeon® 3400 series processors.
- Standard system DDR-3 ECC memory including 1 GB, 2 GB, and 4 GB UDIMMs and 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB, and 8 GB RDIMMs1.
- Integrated Serial-ATA (SATA) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) controllers, depending on model.
- Tower to Rack mount kit support through a rack conversion kit option (model dependant, rack mount kit does not support 11 bays).
- Five available I/O expansion slots (plus dedicated PCI-E slot for the RAID controller).
- Hardware-based RAID striping (RAID-0) and mirroring (RAID-1) standard without consuming an I/O expansion slot, standard for Hot Swap models, optional for Simple Swap models. Optional hardware RAID-5, depending on model.
- Optional Hardware Key for remote presence.
- Up to eleven total bays (special bid only): two 5.25-inch, one 3.5-inch for optional diskette drive, and four 3.5-inch or up to eight 2.5-inch for HDDs (special bid)2.
- SATA DVD-ROM.
- One fixed 401 W (high efficiency redundant 430 W model dependant or via CTO).
- System management support.
- I/O ports:
- Seven USB (four rear, two front, one internal).
- Support for Dual Gigabit Ethernet for greater bandwidth and redundancy; one Gigabit shared to system management.
- One software-compatible serial port.
- Integrated Matrox graphics controller with 128 MB video memory.