IBM x3100 M5 Type 5457 Product Manual - page 6
IBM System x3100 M5 Product Guide
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Standard specifications
The following table lists the standard specifications.
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1 of 2)
Components
Specification
Form factor
Two designs:
Compact tower (can be a 4U rack form factor using the optional Tower-to-Rack
Conversion Kit, 69Y5182).
Standard Tower (can be a 5U rack form factor using the optional Tower-to-Rack
Conversion Kit, 00J6353).
Processor
One Intel “Haswell” processor as listed in model table or available CTO:
One 2-core Intel Celeron Processor 2.8 GHz and 1333 MHz memory.
One 2-core Intel Pentium Processor up to 3.4 GHz and 1600 MHz memory.
One 2-core Intel Core i3 Processor up to 3.7 GHz and 1600 MHz memory.
One 2 or 4-core Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 up to 3.7 GHz & 1600 MHz memory.
Supports EM64T for 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems and applications.
L3 cache
Integrated in the processor:
Up to 2 MB for Intel Celeron processors.
Up to 3 MB L3 for Intel Pentium processors.
Up to 4 MB L3 for Intel Core i3 processors.
Up to 8 MB L3 for Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 processors.
Chip set
Intel C222, formerly known as Intel Lynx Point PCH and Intel Denlow platform.
Memory DIMM slots
Four DDR3 DIMM slots supporting UDIMMs. RDIMMs are not supported.
Memory capacity
Up to 32 GB with 8 GB DDR3 UDIMMs and four populated DIMM slots.
Memory protection
ECC.
Disk drive bays
Compact tower: Up to four 3.5" simple-swap bays
Standard tower: Up to four 3.5" hot-swap bays (HDDs) or eight 2.5" hot-swap bays
(HDDs or SSDs)
Maximum internal
storage
Compact tower: Up to 12 TB with 3 TB 3.5" simple-swap NL SATA HDDs.
Standard tower: Up to 16 TB with 4 TB 3.5" hot-swap NL SATA HDDs or up to 8 TB with
1 TB 2.5" hot-swap NL SAS HDDs
RAID support
Software RAID 0, 1, or 10 with ServeRAID C100 controller, upgradeable to RAID 5.
Optional hardware RAID with ServeRAID H1110 (RAID 0, 1, 1E, or 10) or M1115 (RAID
0, 1, 10, optional RAID 5, or 50) or M5110 (RAID 0, 1, 10, optional 5, 50, 6, or 60, and
optional cache with flash backup). Additional upgrades for M5110. For compact tower:
using the hardware RAID adapter also requires a RAID upgrade kit (00J6352).
Optical drive bays
One 5.25" HH bay, support for DVD-ROM or multiburner. Half-High SATA DVD-ROM or
multiburner included in standard models (model specific).
Tape drive bays
One 5.25" HH bay, support for DDS, RDX, or LTO drive.
Network interfaces
Integrated two-port Gigabit Ethernet (Broadcom BCM5717). One port is shared with the
IBM Integrated Management Module (IMM).
PCI expansion slots
Four PCI Express slots:
Slot 1, PCIe 3.0 x16 (x8 wired), full-height, half-length.
Slot 2, PCIe 3.0 x8 (x8 wired), full-height, half-length.
Slot 2, PCIe 2.0 x8 (x4 wired), full-height, half-length.
Slot 4, PCIe 2.0 x4 (x1 wired), full-height, half-length.