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Low-Cost NAS: Page 10 of 32

The ProLiant ML310 G3 Storage Server we received was a standalone, midsize vertical tower with a dual-core Intel Pentium D 830 3-GHz processor, DVD R/W drive and four 250-GB SATA hard disks. Our test system came configured with only 512 MB of RAM and we learned--after testing was completed--that HP normally configures the 1-TB version with 1 GB of memory. HP's hot-swappable drive enclosure, like Adaptec's, uses an SAS backplane, even though HP doesn't offer an SAS option for this system. The tower case has two 5.25-inch external drive bays for additional optical or tape drives, and the system board has two available PCI-X and one PCI-E slot for add-on cards.