Support for up to four NVMe PCIe SSDs in a 2.5-inch form factor maximizes drive I/O performance, in terms of throughput, bandwidth, and latency.2.5-inch drive bays support SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs, as well as NVMe drives. 3.5-inch drive bays support SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs.Up to 8x 3.5-inch simple-swap drive bays.Up to 8x 3.5-inch + 4x 2.5-inch drive bays with the media bay conversion.Up to 8x 3.5-inch drive bays with two 5.25-inch media drive bays available.
Up to 20x 2.5-inch drive bays with the media bays converted to 4x 2.5-inch drive bays.Up to 16x 2.5-inch drive bays with two 5.25-inch media drive bays available.Configurations with 3-5-inch simple-swap drive bays are also available. Flexible storage configurations support either 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch hot-swap drive bays or a combination of the two (hybrid configuration).The 12 Gbps SAS internal storage connectivity doubles the data transfer rate compared to 6 Gb SAS solutions to maximize performance of storage I/O-intensive applications.Up to 768 GB of memory capacity using 12x 64GB DIMMs.Each processor has six memory channels with memory speeds of up to 2933 MHz to help maximize system performance.Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512) enable acceleration of enterprise-class workloads, including databases and enterprise resource planning (ERP).Intel Deep Learning Boost (Vector Neural Network Instruction set or VNNI) is designed to deliver significant, more efficient Deep Learning (Inference) acceleration for high-performance Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads.Intel Speed Select Technology provides improvements in server utilization and guaranteed per-core performance service levels with more granular control over processor performance.Intel Virtualization Technology integrates hardware-level virtualization hooks that allow operating system vendors to better use the hardware for virtualization workloads.Intelligent and adaptive system performance with energy-efficient Intel Turbo Boost Technology, available with most processors, allows CPU cores to run at maximum speeds during peak workloads by temporarily going beyond processor thermal design power (TDP).Hyper-Threading Technology to maximize the concurrent execution of multithreaded applications, available with most processors.Improves productivity by offering superior system performance with up to two processors, each with up to 22 cores, and core speeds up to 3.8 GHz.The ST550 offers the following features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs: The ThinkSystem ST550 is a high-performance dual-socket tower server based on the second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, supporting a wide range of processors to suit a wide range of budgets and application requirements.