Table 1. Specifications (continued)
Specification
Description
Storage controller •  Twelve onboard SATA ports (only the first 8 drives can be configured using Intel 
VROC SATA RAID)
•  Eight onboard NVMe ports (Intel VROC NVMe RAID)
•  NVMe Retimer Adapter (Intel VROC NVMe RAID)
•  The following SAS/SATA RAID/HBA options are available for this server:
–  ThinkSystem 430-8i SAS/SATA 12Gb HBA (No RAID)
–  ThinkSystem 430-8e SAS/SATA 12Gb HBA (No RAID)
–  ThinkSystem 430-16i SAS/SATA 12Gb HBA (No RAID)
–  ThinkSystem 430-16e SAS/SATA 12Gb HBA (No RAID)
–  ThinkSystem 440-16i SAS/SATA PCIe Gen4 12Gb Internal HBA (No RAID)
–  ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i PCIe 12Gb Adapter (RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50)
–  ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12Gb Adapter (RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 
60)
–  ThinkSystem RAID 930-8e 4GB Flash PCIe 12Gb Adapter (RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 
60)
–  ThinkSystem RAID 940-8i 4GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter (RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 
50, 6, 60)
–  ThinkSystem RAID 940-8i 8GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter (RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 
50, 6, 60)
–  ThinkSystem RAID 530-16i PCIe 12Gb Adapter (RAID 0, 1, 10)
–  ThinkSystem RAID 930-16i 4GB Flash PCIe 12Gb Adapter (RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 
60)
–  ThinkSystem RAID 940-16i 8GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter (RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 
50, 6, 60)
–  ThinkSystem RAID 940-16i 8GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Internal Adapter (RAID 0, 
1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60)
–  ThinkSystem RAID 940-32i 8GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter (RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 
50, 6, 60)
Notes: 
•  ThinkSystem RAID 940-32i 8GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter can only be installed 
in slot 9 in one CPU configurations, and installed in slot 9, 5, 6, 7, or 8 in two CPU 
configurations.
•  Onboard SATA 8-11 connector can only support ACHI mode when ThinkSystem M.2 
NVMe 2-Bay RAID Enablement Kit or ThinkSystem M.2 SATA 2-Bay RAID 
Enablement Kit is installed.
•  Drives connected to SATA 6-7 (from onboard SATA 4-7 connector) cannot be used 
for bootable Windows system disk when in RAID mode.
For a list of supported adapters, see:  
https://static.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven/index.shtml
Fans
Supports up to four hot-swap fans: 
•  9238 single-rotor hot-swap fans
•  9256 dual-rotor hot-swap fans
Note: Single-rotor hot-swap fans cannot be mixed with dual-rotor hot-swap fans.
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