The ThinkSystem ST250 V3 is a office-friendly tower server that has been optimized to provide enterprise-class features to small businesses, retail, educational institutions and branch offices. Scalability and performance The ST250 V3 offers the following features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs:

• Improved single-socket processor performance:
  • Intel Xeon E-2400 Series processors ("Raptor Lake") up to to 8 cores and core speeds up to 3.5 GHz
  • Intel Pentium G7400 and G7400T processors ("Alder Lake") with 2 cores and core speeds up to 3.7 GHz
• Up to four 4800 MHz DDR5 ECC UDIMMs provide speed and capacity of up to 128 GB
• Four PCIe slots for I/O expansion, one of which has the new PCIe Gen5 interface to maximize I/O performance.
• Flexible storage configurations support either 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch hot-swap drive bays or a combination of the two (hybrid configuration). Drive bays support SAS and SATA HDDs, SSDs and HH Optical Disc Drive.
  • Up to 16x 2.5-inch hot-swap drive bays
  • Up to 8x 3.5-inch hot-swap drive bays
  • Up to 4x 3.5-inch + 8x 2.5-inch drive bays + 2x 5.25 HH ( 2x ODD or 1x ODD / 1x Tape drive) bay
• The server also supports simple-swap drives:
  • Up to 8x 3.5-inch SATA drive bays
  • Up to 6x 3.5-inch SATA drive bays + 2x 3.5-inch NVMe drive bay
  • Up to 6x 3.5-inch SATA drive bays + 2x 5.25 HH ( 2x ODD or 1x ODD / 1x Tape drive) bay
• The use of solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of, or along with, traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) can significantly improve I/O performance. An SSD can support up to 100 times more I/O operations per second (IOPS) than a typical HDD
• New high-speed RAID controllers from Lenovo and Broadcom provide 12 Gb SAS connectivity to the drive backplanes
• Offers two 5.25-inch media bays with support for optical drives or backup drives
• Supports two M.2 drives for OS boot support with VROC RAID redundancy (no support for NVMe RAID)
• The server has two integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports
• The server offers one PCIe 5.0 slot plus three PCIe 4.0 I/O expansion slots
• Support for a NVIDIA GPU for enhanced workload performance