IBM System x3200 at a glance
Form factor/height
Tower/5U
Processor
(level 2
(L2) cache/CPU GHz/front-side
bus MHz max)
Quad-Core Intel Xeon (2x4MB/2.13 GHz/1066 MHZ), Dual-Core
Intel Xeon (4MB/up to 2.4 GHz/1066 MHz), Intel Pentium
®
D
(dual-core) (2x2MB/up to 3.4 GHz/800 MHz) or Intel
Pentium 4 (1MB/3.2 GHz/800 MHz)
Number of processors
(std/max)
1/1
Memory
1
(max)
Up to 8GB double data rate (DDR) II 667 MHz
Expansion slots
3 PCI and 2 PCI-Express (x8, x1)
Dedicated RSA II slot
Slotless hardware RAID-0, -1
Disk bays
(total/hot-swap)
Four 3.5" simple-swap or hot-swap SATA HDDs or four 2.5" or
3.5" hot-swap SAS HDDs
Maximum internal storage
1,2
Up to 1.2TB SAS HDDs or up to 3.0TB SATA HDDs
Network interface
Integrated Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)
Power supply
(std/max)
400W 1/1 or 430W hot-swap redundant 2/2 (model
dependent)
Hot-swap components
HDDs, power supplies (model dependent)
RAID support
Integrated hardware RAID-0, -1 (model dependent)
Optional upgrade to RAID-5 and RAID-6
Ports
Front: Two USB
Rear: Four USB; one Ethernet; two serial; one parallel; keyboard
and mouse
Systems management
IPMI 1.5-compliant mini-BMC, IBM Director, Alert Standard
Format 2.0, IBM ServerGuide, optional RSA II and optional
Remote Deployment Manager
Operating systems supported
Microsoft
®
Windows
®
Server 2003 Standard Edition/Enterprise
Edition, Windows Small Business Server 2003, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux
®
, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Novell
NetWare, IBM OS 4690
Limited warranty
3
One year or three year on-site limited warranty (model
dependent)
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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 capacity 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
GB and TB = 1,000,000,000 and
1,000,000,000,000 bytes, respectively, when
referring to storage capacity. Accessible
capacity is less.
3
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