The use of solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of, or along with, traditional spinning drives (hard disk drives or HDDs) can significantly improve I/O performance.
Up to four 3.5-inch non-hot-swap (NHS) drive bays provide flexible internal storage capacity.
Such integration reduces I/O latency and increases overall system performance.
With Intel Integrated I/O Technology, the PCI Express 3.0 controller is integrated into the Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v3 product family.
The server offers PCI Express 3.0 I/O expansion capabilities that increase the theoretical maximum bandwidth by almost 100% (8 GTps per link using 128b/130b encoding) compared to the PCI Express 2.0 (5 GTps per link using 8b/10b encoding).
Up to four 1600 MHz DDR3 ECC or UDIMMs provide speed and capacity of up to 32 GB.
Intel Virtualization Technology integrates hardware-level virtualization hooks that allow operating system vendors to better use the hardware for virtualization workloads.
Intel Hyper-Threading Technology boosts performance for multithreaded applications by enabling simultaneous multithreading within each processor core, up to two threads per core.
Intelligent and adaptive system performance with Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 allows processor cores to run at maximum speeds during peak workloads by temporarily going beyond processor thermal design power (TDP).
The Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v3 improves productivity by offering affordable single-socket system performance with 4-core processors with up to 3.7 GHz core speeds and up to 8 MB cache.
The TS140 offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs: The ThinkServer TS140 server is an office-friendly tower server that has been optimized to provide enterprise-class features to small-to-medium-sized businesses, retail stores, and distributed enterprises.