IBM i Series Handbook

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iSeries and AS/400e Servers
General note: Capacities shown may require prerequisites. Some combinations of features
may not be valid.
Table 6: Summary of the iSeries Model 840
Note 10:
External DASD maximum assumes 17.54 GB LUNs. External DASD cannot exceed the maximum system
capacity or the maximum number of disk arms.
Model
840
Processor Feature
#2416 #2417 #2418 #2419 #2420
Relative System Performance
(Notes 1 and 2)
Processor CPW
Interactive CPW
#1540 (Base)
#1541
#1542
#1543
#1544
#1545
#1546
#1547
10000
120
240
560
1050
2000
4550
10000
-
13200
120
240
560
1050
2000
4550
10000
-
10000
120
240
560
1050
2000
4550
10000
-
16500
120
240
560
1050
2000
4550
10000
16500
16500
120
240
560
1050
2000
4550
10000
16500
Number / Type / Speed of
Processors
8 to 12/iStar
500 Mhz
12 to 18/iStar
500 Mhz
12/iStar
500 Mhz
18 to 24/iStar
500 Mhz
24/iStar
500 Mhz
L2 Cache (MB) 8 8 8 8 8
Main Storage (GB min/max) 4/128 4/128 4/128 4/128 4/128
Main Storage cards (min/max) 4/16 4/16 4/16 4/16 4/16
Minimum Operating System Level V4R5 V4R5 V4R5 V4R5 V4R5
Processor Group (Note 8) P40-P50 P40-P50 P40-P50 P40-P50 P40-P50

IBM i Series Specifications

General

Operating System	IBM i
Form Factor	Rack, Tower
Storage	SSD and HDD options
Security	compliance
Virtualization	IBM PowerVM
CPU	POWER processors
Scalability	Scale-up