IBM x3650 M3 Product Guide

IBM System x3650 M3 16
These options have the following descriptions:
69Y4236 upgrades models with four hot-swap HDD bays to eight hot-swap HDD bays. This option
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requires a ServeRAID M1015, M5014, or M5015.
59Y3825 upgrades models with eight hot-swap HDD bays to 16 hot-swap HDD bays. This option
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includes a SAS expander card that fits into a dedicated RAID slot, and RAID controller occupies one
of the four PCIe slots, limiting the number of available slots to three.
69Y5034 upgrades models with eight hot-swap HDD bays to 16 hot-swap HDD bays. This option
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includes two ServeRAID M5015 RAID controllers (without batteries). The number of available PCIe
slots is three.
59Y3806 upgrades models with eight hot-swap HDD bays to eight hot-swap HDD bays plus an
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internal tape drive (DDS5, DDS6, or RDX). This includes the riser card with USB and SAS tape
connectors, replacing the standard SAS RAID riser card.

IBM x3650 M3 Specifications

General

Memory	Up to 192 GB DDR3
Memory Slots	18 DIMM slots
Form Factor	2U Rack
Processor	Intel Xeon 5600 series
Storage	SAS/SATA drives
Network Interface	Gigabit Ethernet ports
Operating System Support	Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware ESXi
RAID Support	IBM ServeRAID options available