General Purpose servers are available either as a pedestal or rack-mountable
chassis, include internal disk storage and provide balanced services. They offer
high performance against price and are often used as branch office or
departmental servers.

Features:

• Ease of use - key design element as administration usually falls to
  non-dedicated personnel.
• Price / Performance - built around commonly available, standards-based
  components they offer high performance for low cost.
• Balanced Processing - optimised to provide a wide range of application
  and computing services to a small group of people.
• Internal Storage - designed using multiple internal hot-swap drives to provide excellent data I/O performance and redundancy.
• Availability - designed for maximum availability by using hot-swap power
  supplies and hard drives.
• Reliability - redundant power supplies and fans, predictive hard drive failure,
  and RAID support.
• Serviceability - hot swap components mean the system doesn't have to be
  taken offline to be serviced.
• Scalability - the ability to increase the capacity of a server. Scale up by
  upgrading the disks, memory or processors; scale out by adding additional
  servers in a modular fashion.

Examples

General Purpose Server Base Boards

The Intel® Server Board SE7500WV2 is rack-optimized with features making it uniquely suitable for 1U and 2U systems. For highly demanding server workloads, the Server Board SE7500WV2 accommodates up to two Intel® Xeon™ processors with 512KB L2 Advanced Transfer Cache and Hyper-Threading Technology.

With the Intel® Server SPSH4 you can take advantage of the power of 4-way Intel® Xeon™ processors MP, which are specifically designed to provide the uncompromising performance required for eliminating bottlenecks in data flow and running performance-intensive applications such as Microsoft* Exchange 2000 groupware, storage management, and video streaming.