Table 9. Drive bay upgrade options
Option
part
number
Name
00AL540
8x 2.5-inch Hot-Swap SAS/SATA Upgrade Kit for 16 or 24 HDDs:
For existing configurations with 8x or 16x 2.5-inch bays
Adds 8x 2.5-inch hot-swap drives
Backplane Includes a SAS expander
Same backplane as feature A5N5
00AL541
8x 2.5-inch Hot-Swap SAS/SATA Upgrade Kit for 32 HDDs:
For existing configurations with 24x 2.5-inch bays
Adds 8x 2.5-inch hot-swap drives
Same backplane as feature A5D4
00AL542
6x 3.5-inch Hot-Swap SAS/SATA Upgrade Kit for 12 HDDs:
For existing configurations with 6x 3.5-inch drives
Adds 6x 3.5-inch hot-swap drives
Same backplane as feature A5D5
00AL543
6x 3.5-inch Hot-Swap SAS/SATA Upgrade Kit for 22 HDDs (Intermix):
For existing configurations with 16x 2.5-inch drives
Adds 6x 3.5-inch hot-swap drives
Same backplane as feature A5D5
00AL544
8x 2.5-inch Hot-Swap SAS/SATA Upgrade Kit for 14 HDDs (Intermix):
For existing configurations with 6x 3.5-inch drives
Adds 8x 2.5-inch hot-swap drives
Same backplane as feature A5D4
00KG037
8x 2.5-inch Hot-Swap SAS/SATA Upgrade Kit for 22 HDDs (Intermix):
For existing configurations with 6x 3.5-inch and 8x 2.5-inch drives
Adds 8x 2.5-inch hot-swap drives
Same backplane as feature A5N5
00AL539
SAS cable option for Dual RAID array (RAID adapter not included):
For configurations with two RAID cards
Only needed when upgrading from 8x 2.5-inch drives to 16, 24 or 32 drives, as shown in
Figure 7
below.
Connects second adapter to backplane
Lenovo System x3500 M5
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