Supermicro SYS-6029U-E1CR4T 2U rack server 2x Xeon Gold 5118 2.3GHz 128GB DDR4 12x 3.5" bays

Dual Xeon 12-core server for virtualization

The SYS-6029U-E1CR4T delivers two Xeon Gold 5118 processors at 2.3 GHz with 12 cores each and 128 GB of DDR4 ECC memory in a 2U rackmount chassis. It targets IT teams building virtualization clusters, hyper-converged storage nodes or cloud compute tiers that need strong multi-thread throughput and hardware RAID.

Twelve hot-swap 3.5-inch bays with MegaRAID 9361-8i

The front cage accepts twelve SATA or SAS drives served by an eight-port 12 Gb/s RAID controller with 1 GB cache and battery backup supporting levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. Four 10GBase-T ports from an Intel X710 adapter and a dedicated IPMI 2.0 management port handle data and out-of-band access without extra cards. Two 1000 W titanium redundant supplies power the chassis.

Sustained multi-thread performance

Dual 12-core CPUs maintain 2.3 GHz base clocks and can turbo to 3.2 GHz under load while the redundant hot-swap power supplies and 2U airflow design keep thermals stable during continuous VM or storage workloads. The MegaRAID battery protects cached writes during unexpected power loss. Buyers needing GPU compute density or NVMe-only bays should evaluate other platforms.