System specifications
The following table lists the system specifications.
Table 1. System specifications
Components Specification
Form factor Tower or 5U rack-mount (on a shelf)
Processor One Intel Xeon processor E3-1200 v3 product family CPU with four cores up to 3.7 GHz, 8 MB
cache, and up to 1600 MHz memory speed.
Chipset Intel C226.
Memory Four DIMM sockets. Support for ECC UDIMMs. DIMM speeds up to 1600 MHz.
Memory
maximums
Up to 32 GB with four 8 GB UDIMMs.
Memory protection Error-correcting code (ECC) memory.
Drive bays 4x 3.5-inch non-hot-swap SATA drive bays
4x 3.5-inch (standard) + 4x 3.5-inch (optional) hot-swap SATA drive bays
8x 2.5-inch hot-swap SATA drive bays
Drive types 2.5-inch hot-swap drives:
SAS HDDs
Nearline (NL) SATA HDDs
SATA SSDs
3.5-inch hot-swap drives:
SAS HDDs
NL SAS HDDs
NL SATA HDDs
SATA SSDs (2.5-inch SSD in a 3.5-inch tray)
3.5-inch non-hot-swap drives:
NL SATA HDDs
Intermix of SAS/NL SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs is supported within a system, but not
within a RAID array.
Maximum internal
storage
2.5-inch hot-swap drives:
Up to 8 TB with 8x 1 TB NL SATA HDDs
Up to 7.2 TB with 8x 900 GB SAS HDDs
Up to 2.4 TB with 4x 600 GB SATA SSDs
3.5-inch hot-swap drives:
Up to 48 TB with 8x 6 TB NL SATA HDDs
Up to 32 TB with 8x 4 TB NL SAS HDDs
Up to 4.8 TB with 8x 600 GB SAS HDDs
Up to 2.4 TB with 4x 600 GB SATA SSDs
3.5-inch non-hot-swap drives:
Up to 24 TB with 4x 6 TB NL SATA HDDs
RAID support Non-RAID with the integrated SATA controller or 8885e adapter.
RAID 0, 1, 10, and 5 with ThinkServer RAID 100.
RAID 0, 1, 10 with ThinkServer RAID 500. Optional RAID 5, 50 upgrade.
RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6 with ThinkServer RAID 700.
Optical drive bays Two without a backup drive or one with a backup drive. Support for DVD-ROM or DVD-RW.
Backup drive bays One. Support for RDX backup drive.