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x3400 at a glance 

Form factor/height 

Tower/5U 

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

warranty 

Limited warranty

Processor 

(max) 

Dual-Core Intel

® 

Xeon

® 

Processor 5120 up to 1.83 GHz and 

up to 1333 MHz front-side bus or Quad-Core Intel Xeon 

Processor E5430 up to 2.66 GHz 

Number of processors 

(std/max) 

1/2 

L2 cache 

2x2 MB (dual-core) or 2x4 MB (quad-core) 

Memory

(std/max) 

1 GB/32 GB Fully Buffered DIMM 667 MHz via 8 DIMM slots 

Expansion slots 

3 PCI-Express, 2 PCI-X and 1 PCI 

Disk bays 

(total/hot-swap) 

4/0 or 8/8 (model dependent) 

Maximum internal storage

1, 2 

4.0 TB hot-swap SATA, 2.4 TB hot-swap SAS, or 3.0 TB 

simple-swap SATA 

Network interface 

Integrated Gigabit Ethernet 

Power supply 

(std/max) 

670W 1/1 or 835W 1/2 

Hot-swap components 

Power supply, fans and hard disk drives 

RAID support 

Integrated RAID-0/-1/-10, optional RAID-5 

Systems management 

Automatic Server Restart; IBM Predictive Failure Analysis

® 

on 

hard disk drives, processors, VRMs, fans and memory; 

integrated IPMI System Management Processor; IBM Director; 

optional Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine and 

IBM ServerGuide™ 

Operating systems supported 

Microsoft

® 

Windows Server

® 

2003, Red Hat Linux

®

, SUSE 

Linux, Novell NetWare, VMware ESX Server, SCO UnixWare, 

SCO OpenServer 

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