Small and medium businesses no longer have to sacrifice server performance or reliability for an affordable price. Dell’s new PowerEdge R300 and T300 servers have industry-leading performance, memory and high-availability features previously available only in more expensive systems designed for larger businesses. Using the quad-core Intel Xeon x5460 processor, the PowerEdge R300 achieves up to 26 percent better performance than the HP DL320 G5p,2 and up to 51 percent over the IBM System X 3250.3 The T300 tower server achieves up to 31 percent better performance compared to the HP ML310 G5 server,4 and up to 51 better performance than the IBM System X 3200.5. Dell R300 is the industry's most energy efficient server, delivering the leading performance per watt compared to all currently published SPECpower results.

The new Dell R300 and T300 servers also help companies’ better handle memory intensive applications by offering 24GB of memory – three times the memory capacity of competitive one-socket systems. Essential, high-availability features include hot-plug hard drives and redundant power supplies to help increase uptime and prevent loss of data access. Available today worldwide, the industry’s highest-performing one-socket quad-core servers start at $1,249 for the R300 rack server and $999 for the T300 tower server.