1U10E-ROME/2T 1U 10 x 2.5'' HDD Epyc Barebone with redundant PSU

When we started the review process for the ASRock Rack 1U10E-ROME/2T we were immediately surprised. The system is highly focused on providing a solid AMD EPYC 7002 series single-socket platform in a cost-optimized manner. Our initial thought is that this is a minimalistic server, but as we started to work through the system, we realized it has a lot more to offer than we expected, including a small but important undocumented feature.

ASRock Rack 1U10E-ROME/2T Hardware Overview

Since this is a more complex system, we are first going to look at the system chassis. We are then going to focus our discussion on the design of the internals.

ASRock Rack 1U10E-ROME/2T External Overview

First off, the 1U10E-ROME/2T is noticeably shorter than many competitive servers. It measures 625mm deep or 24.6 inches. Many of the servers we review are over 725mm so this was a noticeably smaller package that will fit in more racks.

Looking at the front of the system, we can see a fairly standard 1U solution. There is a USB 3.0 port, basic power and reset buttons along with status LEDs as one would expect. We get 10x 2.5″ bays and they offer a few surprises for us.

First, the drive bays accept SATA or NVMe, so one can use lower power/ cost drives for boot media, then high-performance NVMe for primary storage. The second pleasant surprise was the speed.

Here is an Intel DC P3700 SSD in the system. This is a PCIe Gen3 device so you will see multiple references here to 8GT/s in the link speed. Many AMD EPYC 7002 systems only support PCIe Gen3 speeds on their U.2 drive bays so this is what we expected.

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