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IBM System x3250 M2 at a glance

Form factor/height

Rack/1U

Processor

(CPU GHz/L2

Intel

®

Xeon

®

3370 (quad-core) (up to 3.0 GHz/12 MB/

cache/front-side bus 

1333 MHz) or Intel Xeon 3100 (dual-core) (up to 3.16 GHz/

MHz max)

6 MB/1333 MHz) or Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 (up to 2.80 GHz/

3 MB/1066 MHz) or Intel Pentium

®

(dual-core) (up to 

2.66 GHz/2 MB/800 MHz) or Intel Celeron

®

(up to 

2.0 GHz/512 KB/800 MHz)

Number of processors 

(std/max)

1/1

Memory

1

(max)

1 GB standard/8 GB maximum 667 MHz or 800 MHz via 

4 DIMM slots

Expansion slots

1 PCI-Express (x8), 1 PCI-Express (x4)

Disk bays 

(total/hot-swap)

Two 3.5" simple-swap SATA or 3.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA or

four 2.5" hot-swap SAS HDDs

Maximum internal storage

1, 2

2.0 TB SATA or 600 GB SAS

Network interface

Dual Gigabit Ethernet

Power supply 

(std/max)

350W 1/1

RAID support

Integrated hardware RAID-0, -1 standard hot-swap models and

optional simple swap models; RAID-5 optional for hot-swap

and simple swap models

Systems management

IPMI 2.0-compliant mini-BMC2, optional Remote Supervisor

Adapter II SlimLine

Operating systems supported

Microsoft

®

Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows 

Server 2003, Windows

®

Small Business Server 2003 R2, Red

Hat Enterprise Linux

®

5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10

Limited warranty

3

1-year or 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited

warranty

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1

Maximum internal hard disk and memory

capacities may require the replacement of any

standard hard drives and/or memory and the

population of all hard disk bays and memory

slots with the largest currently supported drives

available. When referring to variable speed 

CD-ROMs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs and DVDs, actual

playback speed will vary and is often less than

the maximum possible.

2

When referring to storage capacity, 

GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes, and 

TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Accessible

capacity is less.

3

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parts, or new and serviceable used parts.

Regardless, our warranty terms apply. For a

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designated as ServerProven®.

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