AMD Athlon MP 2200+ Server Roundup - September 2002

APPRO 1124S - 1U

Appro's 1124 is a very familiar sight to us at AnandTech, mainly because all of our webservers are running off of an earlier version of the Appro 1124 platform. The 1124 is a 1U server, thus limiting its use to web serving, distributed computing farms, and entry-level database serving applications.

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The front of the chassis features two switches - one to reset the system and one to power it on/off; both switches are recessed so they cannot be accidentally hit while fumbling around in a rack. There are a total of six LEDs on the front of the chassis to the right of the power and reset switches; there's a single disk activity light, two network activity lights, two error lights and a single blue power LED.

Just under the row of switches and LEDs are the four 3.5" drive bays that the 1124 provides for expansion. Our sample had a 3.5" floppy drive installed in the leftmost bay however you can request that the floppy drive be left out in favor of another removable hard drive bay.

Unless otherwise specified, the four expansion bays are populated with removable hard drive carriers. Our particular server was the SCSI version (1124S) and thus the backplane is setup to work with 80-pin SCA SCSI drives; the IDE version (1124i) also allows for removable drives.

A single lever allows you to remove the drive bays, and the process is relatively painless. The drives are mounted in the removable bays using up to three screws on each side.

In addition to the four 3.5" bays, Appro includes a slim CD-ROM drive on every 1124 setup.