IBM System x3850 X5 Implementation Guide

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Figure 5-18 SSD Expansion Card for the HX5 (left: top view; right: underside view)
The SSD Expansion Card can be installed in the HX5 in combination with a CIOv I/O
expansion card and CFFh I/O expansion card, as shown in Figure 5-19.
Figure 5-19 Placement of SSD expansion card in combination with a CIOv card and CFFh card
5.11.1 Solid-state drives (SSDs)
SSDs are a relatively new technology in the server world. SSDs are more reliable than
spinning hard disk drives. SSDs consume much less power than a standard serial-attached
SCSI (SAS) drive, approximately 0.5 W (SSD) versus 11 W (SAS).
Target applications for SSDs include video surveillance, transaction-based database (DB),
and other applications that have high performance but moderate space requirements.
Table 5-23 on page 205 lists the supported SSDs.
ServeRAID MR10ie support: The HX5 does not currently support the ServeRAID MR10ie
RAID controller.
Top side of the SSD Expansion Card
with one SSD installed in drive bay 0
Underside of the SSD Expansion Card
showing PCIe connector and LSI
1064E controller
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CIOv
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CFFh
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IBM System x3850 X5 Specifications

General

Processor Cores	Up to 10 cores per processor
Chipset	Intel 7500
Hard Drive Interface	SAS/SATA
Processor	Intel Xeon E7-4800 series, Intel Xeon E7-8800 series
Memory Slots	64 DIMM slots
Storage	Up to 16 x 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10
Network Interface	Integrated Gigabit Ethernet
Operating System Support	Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware vSphere
Form Factor	4U Rack