Description
The Mac Pro “Quad Core” 2.8 Server (Mid-2010/Nehalem) model was introduced as a substitute “high-end” server configuration for the discontinued rack-mountable Xserve line. In many ways, the Mac Pro Server represents a throwback to the days of the Mac Server G4 series where Apple shipped a server “version” of an otherwise identical Power Mac G4 model, but often configured with more RAM and/or a larger hard drive and always with pre-installed server software.
Likewise, the Mac Pro “Quad Core” 2.8 (Server) is identical to the Mac Pro “Quad Core” 2.8 (2010/Nehalem), but shipped with more RAM, two hard drives, and a pre-installed copy of Mac OS X 10.6 Server.
The Mac Pro “Quad Core” 2.8 Server (Mid-2010/Nehalem) is powered by a single 2.8 GHz Quad Core 45-nm Xeon W3530 (Nehalem) processor with a dedicated 256k of level 2 cache for each core and 8 MB of “fully shared” level 3 cache. Via custom configuration, it also could be equipped with a single 3.2 GHz Quad Core “Nehalem” Xeon (W3565) processor for an additional US400, a single 3.33 GHz Six Core “Westmere” Xeon (W3680) processor for an additional US1200, two 2.4 GHz Quad Core “Westmere” Xeon (E5620) processors for an additional US775, two 2.66 GHz Six Core “Westmere” Xeon (X5650) processors for an additional US2275, or two 2.93 GHz Six Core “Westmere” Xeon (X5670) processors for a mere US3475 extra. As requested by readers and because of significant technical differences between some models, EveryMac.com has documented these custom configurations as their own models.
By default, this Mac Pro Server was configured with 8 GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM, two 1 TB (7200 RPM, 32 MB cache) 3Gb/s Serial ATA hard drives, an 18X dual-layer “SuperDrive” and an ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card with 1 GB of GDDR5 memory.
Expansion includes two external 5.25″ “optical” bays (one free by default), four internal 3.5″ “cable-free, direct attach” hard drive bays (three free by default), and four PCIe 2.0 slots (one free PCIe 2.0 x16 slot and two free PCIe 2.0 x4 slots with the default single graphics card installed).
Ports include five USB 2.0 ports, four Firewire “800” ports, dual Gigabit Ethernet, two Mini DisplayPorts and a dual-link DVI port, among others. AirPort Extreme (802.11a/b/g/n) and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR is standard.
