CIARA
Horizon D10500 / T10500
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4.1 Upgrading
As the purchaser of a powerful state of the art CIARA Horizon D10500 / T10500 computer you have no doubt decided on the features
and upgrade capabilities that you might wish to add to your computer. There are many exciting possibilities for upgrading your CIARA
Horizon D10500 / T10500. CIARA has extensively tested a range of potential upgrade and enhancement options that range from hard
disks to various optical drives. Some of these works much better than others and we are able to recommend the ones that work best
with your CIARA Horizon D10500 / T10500 computer.
CIARA will be pleased to help you choose the most reliable and compatible system components when the time comes to upgrade and
enhance your CIARA Horizon D10500 / T10500 computer in a manner that will preserve the Warranty. Table below summarizes the
general features of the various types of upgrades and enhancements that may be added to any CIARA Horizon D10500 / T10500.
UPGRADES AVAILABLE
CIARA Horizon D10500 / T10500
Serial ATA Hard Disk Drives
6 Gb/s
Several hard disks ranging from 1 to 18 TB
Solid State Disk Drives (SSD)
Several SATA 6 Gb/s SSD disks ranging from 256 GB
to 4 TB
Optical Drives
Internal & external Blu-ray drives, Blu-ray writers,
DVD drives and DVD writers may be added.
PCI Express x16 Video
Controller
Video controllers compliant with the PCI Express x16
standard, Gen3 and Gen2.
System Memory
Up to 128 GB DDR4, 288 pin, 3200/3000/2800/2666
MHz.
Disk Controllers
Four onboard SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports
Several PCI Express 2.0 x4 bus RAID adapter cards are
available.
Hi Res. Monitors & Display
Adapters
21.5 to 49 inches LCD monitors.
Network Adapters
Several PCI or PCI Express x4 bus network adapter
cards for Ethernet transmission media are available.
4.2 Networking
Among the more exciting applications for extending the power and utility of CIARA Horizon D10500 / T10500 computers is to connect
them (using communication links and adapter cards) with other computer systems to form computer / communication networks in
order to share software resources (such as databases) and hardware resources (such as printers and scanners). This is referred to as
Local Area Networking (LAN) and Wide Area Networking (WAN).
All CIARA Horizon D10500 / T10500 computers can be networked running the Microsoft Windows and Linux Operating Systems.
CIARA System Integration and Networks Group would be pleased to provide you with turnkey solutions for all your Windows Server
2019, Windows Server 2016 and Linux networking needs. We have trained and certified experts on staff to help you.