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brick server

A brick server is a compact modular server that is assembled from individual functional modules, the bricks, and installed in chassis.

The Brick concept was developed at the beginning of the century and has the advantages of being extremely compact and can be adapted to the technical requirements of the user. Such a brick server consists of several different bricks, each of which fulfills a specific functionality. They are mounted on chassis and installed in racks, comparable to blade servers. Some computer companies also use the terms brick server and blade server interchangeably.

Brick server, photo: ExtermeTech

Brick server, photo: ExtermeTech

The bricks can contain the central processing unit with the main memory, the input/output (I/O) systems, storage units, interfaces, graphics systems or the power supply. The individual Bricks interact with each other.

The term brick is also used for smaller computer and network components. They are then referred to as full-brick, half-brick, quarter-brick or eighth-brick.

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Englisch: brick server
Updated at: 09.04.2014
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