Lenovo System x3500 M5 Type 5464 User Manual

Hard disk drive
connectors
Status LED
(yellow)
Activity LED
(green)
Power /
configuration
connector
SAS signal
connectors
Figure15.Connectorsonthe2.5-inchhot-swapharddiskdrivebackplane
(y
Hard disk drive
connectors
Status LED
(yellow)
Activity LED
(green)
Power / configuration
connector
SAS signal
connectors
Mini-SAS HD
connectors
Figure16.Connectorsonthe2.5-inchhot-swapharddiskdrivebackplanewiththeexpander
Internalcableroutingandconnectors
TheserverusescablestoconnectSATAattached,hot-swapSATA,hot-swapSASandDVDdrivedevicesto
thepowersupplyandtothesystemboard.
Reviewthefollowinginformationbeforeconnectingpowerandsignalcablestointernaldrives:
•Thedrivesthatarepreinstalledintheservercomewithpowerandsignalcablesattached.Ifyoureplace
anydrives,rememberwhichcableisattachedtowhichdrive.
•Whenyourouteacable,makesurethatitdoesnotblocktheairflowtotherearofthedrivesorover
themicroprocessororDIMMs.
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Lenovo System x3500 M5 Type 5464 Specifications

General

Expansion Slots	Up to 7 PCIe 3.0 slots
Processor	Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 and v4 processors
Memory	Up to 1.5TB DDR4 (24 DIMM slots)
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60
Operating System Support	Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware vSphere