Dell PowerEdge M520 CTO Barebones Blade Server

The Dell PowerEdge M520 CTO Barebones Blade Server is a modular blade server designed for customizable enterprise computing deployments inside Dell PowerEdge blade enclosures, including the M1000e chassis. This CTO barebones unit ships without CPU, memory, or storage but includes one heatsink and is ready to accept Intel Xeon E5-2400 series processors; it supports DDR3 RDIMM/UDIMM memory when installed, and 2.5-inch SAS/SATA drive bays are supported depending on configuration. Networking is provided by an integrated NIC that varies by configuration, and mezzanine card expansion enables additional I/O for flexible virtualization, private cloud, and scalable enterprise applications that demand modular compute resources.