The Dell PowerEdge 840 is a basic 1-socket tower server and is at the bottom of Dell's PowerEdge tower server series, coming in under the PowerEdge 1900.  It is recommended by Dell as an affordable, fully-featured server for small to medium-sized businesses, remote offices, and retail locations and is designed to handle file/print sharing, email, POS, and shared internet.

Most of the specifications of the server can be upgraded or downgraded.  The PowerEdge 840 can be upgraded to a total of 8GB of RAM and house up to 4 hard drives in removable hot-swap trays and is compatible with SAS drives which are faster and more reliable than SATA drives, allowing the system to potentially hold a total of 4TB of storage with SAS and SATA drives.  The server offers a variety of ports including a total of 4 USB ports and operates on either Windows Server 2008, Windows Business Server 2003 R2, Windows Storage Svr R2 Wrk x64, or Red Hat Linux Enterprise.

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