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System x3250 M3 at a glance

Form factor/height

Processor 

(Central Processing

Unit (CPU) GHz/Level 3
(L3) cache/front-side bus MHz
max)

Number of processors

(std/max) 

Cache 

(max)

Memory 

(max)

Expansion slots 

Disk bays 

(total/hot-swap)

Maximum internal storage

Network interface 

Power supply

(std/max)

Hot-swap components

RAID support 

Ports 

Systems management 

Operating systems
supported 

Rack/1U

Intel Xeon 3400 Series (quad-core) up to
3.06 GHz/8 MB/1333 MHz or Intel Celeron,
Pentium or Core i3 (dual-core) up to
3.2 GHz/4 MB/1333 MHz

One/one

8 MB Level 3 (L3)

Up to 32 GB Double Data Rate 3 (DDR-3)
Error Checking and Correction (ECC)
memory, up to 1333 MHz; 1 GB, 2 GB,
4 GB Unregistered Dual Inline Memory
Modules (UDIMMs); 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB,
8 GB Registered DIMMS (RDIMMs)

Two PCIe x8 Gen2, dedicated PCIe x4 for
Redundant Array of Independent Disk
(RAID)-0, -1, optional PCI-X (CTO or special
bid only)

Two 3.5" simple-swap Serial Advanced
Technology Attachment (SATA) or 3.5" 
hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)/SATA,
or four 2.5" hot-swap SAS hard disk drives
(HDDs)

4.0 TeraByte (TB) SATA or 2.4 TB SAS.
Optical drive device optional

Dual Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)

351 W one/one

Two 3.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA or four 2.5"
hot-swap SAS HDDs

Hot-swap models- hardware RAID-0, -1
(standard); Simple swap models- hardware
RAID-0, -1 (optional); optional RAID-5

Seven Universal Serial Bus (USB)
two Ethernet, one serial and video

Integrated Management Module (IMM) 
with IPMI 2.0 and Serial over LAN (SOL),
IBM Systems Director, ServerGuide, optional
Virtual media key, Trusted Platform Module
(TPM) 1.2

Microsoft

®

Windows

®

Server 2008 STD, 

EE, R2/Microsoft Windows Server 2008
x64 STD, EE, DC/Windows Small Business
Server 2008, Red Hat Linux

®

, SUSE Linux

Limited warranty

One or three year customer replaceable unit
(CRU)/on-site limited warranty

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