Description
This model was offered as a custom configuration of the Mac Pro “Quad Core” 2.8 Server (2010/Nehalem). However, this system has significant technical differences and is documented as its own model, accordingly.
The Mac Pro “Six Core” 3.33 Server (Mid-2010/Westmere) is powered by a single 3.33 GHz Six Core 32-nm Xeon W3680 (Westmere) processor with a dedicated 256k of level 2 cache for each core and 12 MB of “fully shared” level 3 cache.
By default, it is configured with 8 GB of 1333 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.
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 “Six Core” 3.33 (Server) is identical to the Mac Pro “Six Core” 3.33 (2010/Nehalem), but ships with more RAM and a pre-installed copy of Mac OS X 10.6 Server.
