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Testing Lenovo's new ThinkServer: Low price, lots of options

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Testing Lenovo's new ThinkServer: Low price, lots of options

We tested the Lenovo RD440 as a base-unit, 2U server. We found it pretty generic on the surface, but options, including software pre-loads, increase its potential utility for volume users and especially smaller operations.

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