IBM System x3650 M4 User Manual

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Internal storage
IBM System x3650 M4 server supports 1.8-inch solid-state drives (SSDs), 2.5-inch SSDs and HDDs, and
3.5-inch HDDs. The server supports the following configurations:
16x 2.5-inch hot-swap drive bays, either with or without a SAS expander
1.
8x 2.5-inch hot-swap drive bays
2.
6x 3.5-inch hot-swap hard drive bays
3.
8x 2.5-inch hot-swap drive bays + 16x 1.8-inch SSD drive bays
4.
8x 2.5-inch simple swap drive bays (only available in CTO)
5.
32x 1.8-inch SSD drive bays (only available in CTO)
6.
6x 3.5-inch simple-swap SATA hard drive bays (only available in CTO)
7.
The following figure shows the first three of these configurations.
Figure 5. Internal drive configurations (3 of 6 configurations shown)

IBM System x3650 M4 Specifications

General

Form Factor	2U Rack
Memory Slots	24 DIMM slots
Processor	Intel Xeon E5-2600 series
Memory	Up to 768GB DDR3
Storage	Up to 16 x 2.5-inch or 6 x 3.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs
Power Supply	Redundant hot-swap 550W, 750W, or 900W
Network Interface	Quad-port 1 GbE
Chipset	Intel C600
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 6, 50, 60
Expansion Slots	Up to 6 PCIe slots
Operating System Support	Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware