IBM X3950 M2 - Manual (Page 15)

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x3850 M2 / x3950 M2 Specifications
# of drive bays total / available 5 / 4
# of HDD drive bays total / available 4 / 4 2.5-inch
# of 5.25" bays total / available 1 / 0 (CD-RW/DVD installed)
Maximum HDD capacity
2.5-inch SAS
587.2B (4 x 146.8GB) hot-swap SAS
Internal HDD capacities supported
2.5-inch SAS
73.4, 146.8GB — 10K RPMs;
73.4GB — 15K RPMs
# of HDDs standard None
# of optical drives standard 1 CD-RW/DVD Combo (24X/10X/24X/8X, in dedicated 5.25" UltraBay)
# of diskette drives standard None (USB-attached)
Embedded USB Flash Key standard 4GB (preloaded with VMware ESXi 3.5 (3HX/3HY)
Disk drive technology Hot-swap SAS
Integrated disk controller Eight-port LSI 1078 SAS
# of disk drives supported per port 1
External disk drives supported
standard
Yes, via external 4-port SAS connector
External disk storage devices
supported
System Storage DS4100, DS4200, DS4300, DS4400, DS4500, DS4700, DS4800,
DS6800, DS8100, DS8300, N3700, N5200, N5300, N5500, N5600, N7600, and N7800
storage subsystems
Integrated RAID controller / cache LSI 1078 (no cache) standard—internal SAS
Optional RAID controllers supported ServeRAID-MR10k (256MB)—internal/external SAS
# of adapter slots total / available 7 / 7
# of PCIe physical x8/electrical x8
slots (4GBps)
7 full-height/half-length (including 2 Active PCIe hot-plug slots)
# of PCI-X slots None
# of legacy PCI slots None
# of video ports 1
Video controller ATI Radeon ES1000
Video memory 16MB SDRAM
Maximum video resolution at 32-bit
color
1024 x 758 x 32-bit color at 85Hz
Gigabit Ethernet controller Dual-port Broadcom BCM5709C
TOE acceleration Yes
Failover / load-balancing-capable Yes / Yes
# of Gigabit Ethernet ports 2 (rear)
# of RS485 ports None
# of serial ports 1 (rear)
# of parallel ports None (USB-attached)
# of mouse ports None (USB-attached)