I bought an old Dell Poweredge 2650 off ebay to use as a dev server, but I need to get more RAM for it. From what I understand there were 2 versions of the 2650 released, with the older version only supporting PC1600 RAM (200MHz) and the 2nd version supporting PC2400. Unfortunately Dell thought it wasn't necessary to label their servers as such so I can't tell what version I have.
Does anyone know if there is a way to tell without buying and testing RAM in the server?
Best Answer
Here are the memory specs for the PE2650:
Memory
Architecture 72-bit ECC PC-1600 DDR SDRAM DIMMs, with 2-way interleaving
Memory module sockets six 72-bit wide 184-pin DIMM sockets
Memory module capacities 128-, 256-, 512 MB, or 1-GB registered SDRAM DIMMs, rated for 200-MHz DDR operation
Minimum RAM 256 MB
Maximum RAM 6 GB
And here's the user manual section on installing\adding memory:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/pe2650/en/it/5g375c60.htm#1070776