Meet the Dell Precision 5820
Standing 16.5 inches tall with a footprint of 7 by 20.4 inches, the Dell Precision 5820 blurs the line between a desktop workstation and a server. How do maximums of 68 terabytes of storage and 256GB of memory grab you?
Front View
Front-panel ports include an SD card reader, two USB-A and two USB-C ports, and an audio jack. The Precision can be positioned either vertically or horizontally.
Rear Angle View
Though it can hold just one processor (albeit one with up to 18 cores), the Dell can accommodate six storage drives, eight memory modules, and two professional-grade GPUs.
Rear Ports
The motherboard offers line-in and line-out audio jacks, a serial port, legacy PS/2 ports, a Gigabit Ethernet jack, and half a dozen USB 3.1 Type-A ports.
Expansion Slots
You can see the Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000 graphics card and Dell's optional Thunderbolt 3 interface card in two of the rear brackets.
Inside the Tower
Opening the side to the interior exposes the extra-large workstation-grade motherboard for the Xeon chip, which has an air-routing shield over the CPU and RAM zones.
Removing the Shield
With the routing shield off, you can see the eight slots for ECC memory bracketing the Xeon CPU, itself under another hood.
A Quick-Change Hard Drive Bay
The four primary front drive bays are hot-swappable—pushing a button releases a pull-out handle, with no need to open the tower as on competing workstations.
Power Supply
It's also easy to swap the Precision's power supply: Unplug its modular cables, push the blue bar to unlock it, and grab the clear handle to pull it out.