Compact passively-cooled methods discover utility in all kinds of market segments together with industrial automation, IoT gateways, medical methods, kiosks, surveillance, and digital signage. These are supposed to be deployed for 24×7 operation in difficult environmental circumstances. The necessities in these segments are sometimes ignored by conventional client PCs – large working temperature vary, ruggedness, assist for particular I/O varieties, and so forth. Absence of shifting components (fanless nature) reduces scope for system failure.
Supermicro has a lot of methods concentrating on this market underneath the Embedded/IoT class. Their SuperServer E100 product line makes use of motherboards within the 3.5″ SBC form-factor. Particularly, the E100-12T lineup makes use of embedded Tiger Lake-U SoCs to create highly effective, but compact and fanless methods.
The SYS-E100-12T-H based mostly on the Intel Core i7-1185GRE is the very best performing system within the lineup. The evaluate beneath takes an in depth have a look at the options and efficiency profile of the system, together with an analysis of the thermal resolution.
Introduction and Product Impressions
Supermicro’s SYS-E100-12T sequence of methods is predicated on the Tremendous X12STN 3.5″ SBC boards. Every board is accessible to finish clients in two variants – one with an built-in heatsink, and one other with out (WOHS). The SYS-E100-12T takes the Tremendous X12STN-WOHS board and mounts it contained in the CES-E101-03 fanless case meant for boards on this explicit type issue.
Processors meant for the embedded market make it to finish clients a lot later than their client counterparts – they’ve a protracted life-cycle, and the qualification cycles are prolonged too. Although Intel’s Alder Lake processors are trickling into ultra-compact form-factor methods already, the time for large availability of Supermicro’s SYS-E100-12T has come solely now.
Regardless of the SYS-E100-12T sequence being tagged as SuperServer methods, the methods don’t use ECC reminiscence. There isn’t any separate BMC, however that’s not a shock for a machine based mostly on a 3.5″ SBC board. Nevertheless, to make up for that, the SYS-E100-12T-H does assist vPro and distant administration capabilities use AMT. The system additionally helps Supermicro’s monitoring utility ‘SuperDoctor’ – this enables Nagios integration for centralized infrastructure monitoring.
In maintaining with the goal market’s necessities, the SYS-E100-12T comes with a variety of I/O interfaces – two NBASE-T (as much as 2.5Gbps) LAN connections, 4 USB 2.0 ports, a serial port, a number of COM ports, 4 USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports (three Kind-A and one Kind-C), and assist for analog audio outputs, WLAN playing cards, and nano SIM playing cards.
Along with the principle unit, Supermicro provides a lockable 12V 7A (84W) DC energy adapter, thermal pads for playing cards to be put in on the board, screws for the set up, in addition to mounting {hardware} for the system.
Our evaluate pattern included 2x 32GB DDR4-3200 SODIMMs in addition to a 240GB InnoDisk M.2 NVMe drive. The total specs of the evaluate pattern are offered within the desk beneath.
| Supermicro SM-E100-12T-H Specs (as examined) |
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| Processor | Intel Core i7-1185GRE Tiger Lake 4C/8T, 1.8 – 4.4 GHz Intel 10nm SuperFin, 12MB L2, 15W |
| Reminiscence | Innodisk M4SE-BGS2OC0M-A DDR4-3200 SODIMM 22-22-22-52 @ 3200 MHz 2×32 GB |
| Graphics | Intel Iris Xe Graphics (96EU @ 1.35 GHz) |
| Disk Drive(s) | Innodisk M.2 (S80) 3TE7 DEM28-B56DK1EW1QF (256 GB; M.2 2280 SATA III;) (64L 3D TLC; InnoDisk ID301 Controller) |
| Networking | 2x 2.5 GbE RJ-45 (Intel I225-IT) |
| Audio | Realtek ALC888S Audio Codec On-board (Non-compulsory Audio Jack, N/A in Overview System) Audio Bitstreaming Help over HDMI Ports |
| Video | 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x HDMI 1.4b |
| Miscellaneous I/O Ports | 3x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Kind-A (Entrance) 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Kind-C (Entrance) 4x USB 2.0 (Rear) Digital I/O by way of DB9 (Rear) 4x RS-232 COM (Rear) |
| Working System | Home windows 11 Enterprise (22000.708) |
| Pricing | (Road Pricing on June 6th, 2022) US $1216 (Barebones) US $1866 (as configured, no OS) |
| Full Specs | Supermicro SuperServer E100-12T-H Specs |
Supermicro is within the means of increasing retail availability of the system. Presently, just one e-tailer has an inventory for the product. The SM-E100-12T-H stands out from the the embedded / industrial PCs reviewed beforehand by us. Twin NBASE-T (2.5 GbE) ports and the presence of a Kind-C port are distinctive promoting factors. The motherboard used within the system can be fairly versatile.
The chassis is manufactured from extruded aluminum and carries important heft. The highest of the chassis mounts as a warmth sink on the processor, permitting warmth to be dissipated away shortly. A number of pictures of the internals of the system are offered within the gallery beneath.
Within the subsequent part, we check out the system setup and observe it up with an in depth platform evaluation.
