IBM NeXtScale System User Manual

86 IBM NeXtScale System Planning and Implementation Guide
For more information about SSDs, see Enterprise Solid State Drives for IBM
BladeCenter and System x Servers, TIPS0792, which is available at this website:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0792.html?Open
4.8 IBM NeXtScale Storage Native Expansion Tray
The IBM NeXtScale Storage Native Expansion Tray is a half-wide 1U expansion
tray that attaches to the nx360 M4 to provide seven extra 3.5-inch simple-swap
SATA drives. The tray allows the configuration of storage-rich nx360 M4 compute
nodes. Using eight 4 TB drives, such a configuration offers 32 TB of internal
direct-attach storage.
49Y5834 A3AQ IBM 64GB SATA 1.8" MLC Enterprise Value SSD 4
00AJ335 A56V IBM 120GB SATA 1.8" MLC Enterprise Value SSD 4
00AJ340 A56W IBM 240GB SATA 1.8" MLC Enterprise Value SSD 4
00AJ345 A56X IBM 480GB SATA 1.8" MLC Enterprise Value SSD 4
00AJ350 A56Y IBM 800GB SATA 1.8" MLC Enterprise Value SSD 4
a. 1 drive supported without the Storage Native Expansion Tray. 8 drives supported with the Storage
Native Expansion Tray. See 4.8, “IBM NeXtScale Storage Native Expansion Tray” on page 86.
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IBM NeXtScale System Specifications

General

Brand	IBM
Model	NeXtScale System
Category	Server
Language	English