IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M4
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Internal storage
As described in "Chassis configurations," the iDataPlex dx360 M4 server supports 3.5" simple-swap
SATA drives, 2.5" simple-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs, or 1.8" simple-swap SSDs. The number of
drives supported depends on the configuration as listed in the following table. The table also lists the
adapters supported for each drive configuration.
Table 6. Drive type and RAID adapter support.
Software RAID or no RAID
Hardware RAID using ServeRAID
adapter
Configuration
Drive type
Quantity
of drives
On board
SATA
With IBM 6 Gb
Performance
HBA
With
H1110
With
M1115
3.5" SS SATA
1
Yes
No
No
No
2.5" SS SATA
2
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
2.5" SS SAS
2
No
No
Yes
Yes
2.5" SS SSD
2
No
Yes
No
No
Compute-intensive
1.8" SS SSD
4
No
Yes
No
No
3.5" SS SATA
2
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
2.5" SS SATA
4
No
No
No
Yes
2.5" SS SAS
4
No
No
No
Yes
2.5" SS SSD
4
No
Yes
No
No
GPGPU
1.8" SS SSD
8
No
Yes
No
No
Controllers for internal storage
The following table lists the RAID controllers and additional options used for internal disk storage of the
dx360 M4 server.
Table 7. RAID controllers for internal storage
Part
number
Feature code
Description
81Y4492
A1XL
IBM ServeRAID H1110 SAS/SATA Controller
81Y4448
A1MZ
IBM ServeRAID M1115 SAS/SATA Controller
81Y4481
A1WW
IBM ServeRAID M5110 SAS/SATA Controller
46M0907
5982
IBM 6Gb SAS HBA
46M0912
3876
IBM 6Gb Performance Optimized HBA
