HP XW8400 Quickspecs

1.
2.
3.
4.
Tower configuration
Quantity Supported Position Supported Controller
Minitower
FDD
Optional Diskette Drive 1 3 IDE
5.25" Storage Drive Bays 3 1, 2, 3 IDE
3.5" Storage Drive Bays with
acoustic dampening rail
assemblies
4 5
(4 standard drive bays native)
SATA or SAS
3.5" Storage Drive Bay 1 6
(5
th
drive is supported here,
tools required for attach, no
acoustic dampening)
SATA or SAS
SATA and SAS may be only
mixed in a Windows
configuration. Here are the rules
for mixing hard drives:
The boot/data drive must
be SATA to load before
any SAS drive.
Any size or speeds may be
chosen for drives 1-3.
However, hard drive 4
must be the same
size/speed as hard drive 3
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HP XW8400 Specifications

General

Processor Speed	Up to 3.0 GHz
Chipset	Intel 5000X
Power Supply	800W
Form Factor	Tower
Processor	Intel Xeon (Dual-core or Quad-core)
Memory	Up to 32 GB DDR2
Storage	SATA or SAS Hard Drives
Graphics	NVIDIA Quadro
Expansion Slots	2 PCI Express x16, 2 PCI
Operating System	Windows XP Professional
Optical Drive	DVD-ROM
USB Ports	7 USB 2.0
Network	Integrated Gigabit Ethernet