AMD Athlon MP 2200+ Server Roundup - September 2002

Getting inside the RS-1100 is a simple task of unscrewing the numerous screws that hold the cover in place; after doing so, the cover lifts off exposing the internals of the server.

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The RS-1100 is surprisingly empty on the inside, but when you think about the fact that there are no removable drive bays and no redundant power supplies then it's not too shocking that there's barely anything inside the system.

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A single power cable runs from the rear of the chassis to the front-mounted power supply, which has its own cooling fan as well. A switch on the inside of the case can turn on/off the power supply which can be useful during testing/debugging but don't forget to turn it back on before you reassemble the system.

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A single IDE hard drive was mounted next to the power supply in our evaluation system; Racksaver decided to go with the extremely fast Western Digital 120GB Special Edition drive with a very large 8MB buffer, which is pretty much the fastest you can get in the IDE realm. There is room for another two internal drives but our system only shipped with a single unit. The cooling fans at the front of the case handle the task of cooling the internal drives.

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A SCSI version of the server is available but if you order an IDE version it will ship without the on-board SCSI controller on the Thunder K7X motherboard. Racksaver also failed to ship the system with any sort of PCI riser which was fairly disappointing since PCI risers are usually not things you can pick up just anywhere.