The system, which comes with HBA controller support via Broadcom S3808, features 24x front hot-swap 3.5” SAS/SATA drive bays plus 2x rear hot-swap 2.5” SATA drive bays. NVMe setups may require an additional storage controller and cables. Furthermore, the X13 motherboard on the Supermicro 641E-E1CR24L allows for dual M.2 PCIe 4.0 x2 NVMe slots that can accommodate 2280 or 22110 cards.
There is a total of 6x PCIe slots, which can be accessed through the rear of the chassis. 4x of these slots are PCIe 5.0 x16 full-height, half-length slots and the remaining consist of 2x PCIe 5.0 x8 full-height, 10.5” length. Power is distributed by 2x 1200W redundant Titanium level power supplies.
The Supermicro 621E-ACR12H may be managed by administrators using SuperCloud Composer, SuperDoctor 5, Super Diagnostics Offline, and other Supermicro software tools. Supermicro SuperDoctor 5 (SD5) is designed to monitor and improve the performance of Supermicro servers. It alerts managers to issues and system conditions by giving them real-time hardware and OS health tracking. SD5 offers flexibility for different administration preferences with both web-based and command-line interfaces.