Friday, March 26th 2021
ASRock Rack Puts AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Processor in 1U Short Depth Server
ASRock Rack, a division of ASRock dedicated to server/enterprise products, has today quietly launched a 1U short depth server, equipped with AMD's X570 motherboards, able to accommodate AMD Ryzen 5000 series of processors. The 1U2-X570/2T, as ASRock calls it, features an X570D4I-2T motherboard that is capable of housing any AMD Ryzen and Ryzen Pro 5000 series processor with TDP up to 105 Watts, paired with up to four SO-DIMMs of DDR4 ECC memory. Being a remote desktop/server type of build, the 1U case is not designed to be equipped with any powerful discrete graphics card. There is room for the motherboard, the power supply, and the HDDs located next to the motherboard.
Equipped with an 80-Plus Bronze 265 Watt PSU, the system can handle almost any CPU it is equipped with, two 3.5" drives and two 2.5" 7 mm drives. The motherboard also supports M.2 2280 SSD with PCIe 4.0 protocol support. When it comes to basic graphics output, ASRock Rack has installed an ASPEED AST2500 graphics controller to handle basic video output and display the command line, so you can operate with your server with ease. When it comes to networking, it is equipped with dual RJ45 10 GbE connectors, coming from an Intel X550-AT2 Ethernet controller. For more details, head over to the ASRock Rack 1U2-X570/2T product page.
Source:
via Tom's Hardware
Equipped with an 80-Plus Bronze 265 Watt PSU, the system can handle almost any CPU it is equipped with, two 3.5" drives and two 2.5" 7 mm drives. The motherboard also supports M.2 2280 SSD with PCIe 4.0 protocol support. When it comes to basic graphics output, ASRock Rack has installed an ASPEED AST2500 graphics controller to handle basic video output and display the command line, so you can operate with your server with ease. When it comes to networking, it is equipped with dual RJ45 10 GbE connectors, coming from an Intel X550-AT2 Ethernet controller. For more details, head over to the ASRock Rack 1U2-X570/2T product page.
22 Comments on ASRock Rack Puts AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Processor in 1U Short Depth Server
Asrock makes interesting one-off products, but their support is extremely lackluster.
and it comes with IPMI
If they're designed to go in half-depth comms racks then why make them 1U? Comms racks can't handle the heat or power density of cramming in a couple of hundred Watts per U.
The Bronze PSU dosn't really matter since its max of 100 watt CPU, not being redundant sucks but there may not be any options that would fit that short depth.
I dunno, maybe this one bucks the trend and actually doesn't sound like a hairdryer but the overwhelming majority of 1U systems are noisy little buggers and this thing has four 40x36m fans in it that likely run at 5000+ RPM.
Space is a premium but you don't have much density (cause its an office, not a dedicated server room).Yeah. That's... true. 1U is very very loud.
1U mini with front I/O or two-sided drives me nuts over the past year and a half. One of my clients has OCD, so he postponed setting up the second server room just because he wants that stupid front I/O.
Tried finding old Supermicro cases w/ front-facing I/O - no luck buying it separately, only finding idiots who's asking upwards of $300 for useless Atom D2550 servers (for perspecitve, an entire X9SCL-F rig w/ E5-1230v2 & 16GB RAM cost me less).
Third party - usually some garbage made out of tin foil, and has PSU facing forward as well, along with jerry-rigged power button in some random spot... :banghead:
AsRock, please tell me where you get these cases! I'll be a good boy and recommend your stuff to all of my friends and co-workers! :D
The noise it makes will not be.
54dBa each, one in the PSU, three in the chassis, almost 12K rpm for a horrible-high pitched whine that is right at the most sensitive human hearing frequencies so that it feels more like 154dBa. This is server hardware where temperature is all the matters and your eardrums are irrelevant because why would anyone choose to be in a server room longer than absolutely necessary, especially without ear defenders?
I'm not blaming Asrack, this is what all 1U servers use - it's a necessity.
As for why would anyone choose to be in a server room longer than absolutely necessary: in summer, with poor quality A/C in the office, it may be absolutely necessary to spend some more time with the little fans.
Unless a specific component is shrouded (usually CPU), entrainment of air is a major factor in all server cooling. If this design didn't work, 90% of the servers in operation today would overheat because it's a principle that the overwhelming majority of all rack servers ever made depend on.I go and hide in the server rooms occasionally just to stand in a 17C environment for a few minutes, not gonna lie ;)
Somebody might like this chassis, I just like the boards they make.
No redundant hot swappable PSU's, no hotswappable HDD's, there is a x16 PCIex port but no mezzanine, no dedicated RAID controller, I/O ports at the front...
I can only imagine the pain of searching for a replacement board when it fails after the warranty is over...
As for the hard drives as long as there is air moving around them and there isn't like 4+ stacked together (which there isn't here) they'll be with essentially passive cooling.
Also unless the walls are coming in around you nothing sounds like 154 dBA a server room, if you ever heard anything in the 120 dBA range you wouldn't say that.
At 140dBA your eardrums would rupture, your cochlear would be instagibbed and you'd never hear another sound ever again. To give you some context, 142dBA is the volume level recorded from the blast pit when the space shuttle used to take off. 120dBA is very painful and will cause lasting damage very quickly. 110dBA is "mosh pit at a very loud rock concert" and you won't have trouble finding people who are deaf now because they went to enough concents when they were young.The chassis and PSU are standard mITX layout. Even if you can't get an exact replacement board, the worst case scenario is you have to do a bit of dremmel work to the IO shield to line up with ports on the alternative board.
Asrock and others all make mITX server/workstation boards. They're a commodity item in the channel even if you don't see them on consumer retailers.
To the point though there isn't any reason this has would be particularly loud given its power limits and assuming good fan control. All the Supermicro, and Seasonic 1U PSUs I've worked with have very, very quiet at normal loads and those are all using 40mm fans.
Impossible to say without seeing what the motherboard fan-control is like in the BIOS, and what exact model of fan and PSU are used but this is a budget system though which probably means cheaper noisy fans and I cannot read the label but that looks like an 80+ Bronze sticker so we're definitely talking cheapo PSU.
Again, nothing wrong with any of that given the right pricing, but definitely provides more evidence that this will be at the louder end of expectations if we're forced to make educated guesses. It's cheaper to use fewer, smaller heatsinks and crank up those fan RPMs.