Specifications

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 Environmental specifications: The optimized thermal management makes the PowerEdge
M820 reliable under a wide range of operating environments as shown in Table 24.
Acoustical performance
The acoustical performance of the PowerEdge M820 is reflected in Table 16. The addition of some
components can cause an increase in fan speed and acoustical output. Contributors to acoustical
output can include:
 The system thermal profile selected in BIOS (for example, Power optimized DAPC or
Performance optimized)
 NDC
 Number of installed processors
 Population of modular, non-homogenous modular deployment
 Impedance of blanks
Table 16. M820 acoustical performance
Configuration
(23 ± 2°C
ambient)
CPUs
Hard
drives
DIMMs
HDD
controller
NDC
PCI cards
Operating
mode
L
WA
-UL
1
(bels)
L
pA
2
(dBA)
Minimum
2 x
95W
(6
core)
1 x 2.5"
SATA
(7.2K)
2 x
2GB
PERC H310
(mini)
None
Any mezz.
card
Standby
3
6.9
51
Idle
4
7.4
55
Typical
2 x
95W
(8
core)
2 x 2.5"
SAS
(10K)
16 x
8GB
PERC H710
(mini)
1Gb
Any mezz.
card
Standby
3
6.9
52
Idle
4
7.3
55
1
L
WA
-UL is the upper limit sound power levels (L
WA
) calculated per section 4.4.1 of ISO 9296 (1988) and measured in
accordance to ISO 7779 (2010).
2
L
pA
is the average A-weighted sound pressure level of four bystanders in accordance with ISO 7779 (2010) Section 8.6.2.
The system is placed inside 42U rack in 25cm height.
3
Standby: AC Power is connected to power supply units but the system is not turned on.
4
Idle: Reference ISO 7779 (2010) definition 3.1.7; system is running in its operating system but no other specific activity.
Note: Stress is an operating mode per ISO 7779 (2010) definition 3.1.6. Since blade stressing applications vary widely,
blade stress values are not available.