Drive bays
Up to 28 SFF SAS/SATA hot-swap drive bays:
8x 2.5" (front) + 8x 2.5" (front) + 8x 2.5" (front) + 2x 2.5" (rear) + 2x 2.5" (rear)
Up to 16 SFF SAS/SATA hot-swap + 4 SFF NVMe PCIe SSD non-hot-swap drive bays:
8x 2.5" SAS/SATA (front) + 8x 2.5" SAS/SATA (front) + 4x 2.5" NVMe PCIe (front)
Up to 16 LFF+SFF SAS/SATA hot-swap drive bays:
12x 3.5" (front) + 2x 3.5" (rear) + 2x 2.5" (rear)
12x 3.5" (front) + 2x 2.5" (rear) + 2x 2.5" (rear)
Up to 16 SFF SATA Simple Swap drive bays: 8x 2.5" (front) + 8x 2.5" (front)
Up to 10 LFF SAS/SATA hot-swap drive bays: 8x 3.5" (front) + 2x 3.5" (rear)
Up to 14 LFF+SFF SAS/SATA hot-swap drive bays:
8x 3.5" (front) + 2x 2.5" (rear) + 2x 2.5" (rear)
8 LFF SATA Simple Swap + up to 4 SFF SAS/SATA hot-swap drive bays:
8x 3.5" (front) + 2x 2.5" (rear) + 2x 2.5" (rear)
Storage capacity
Up to 119.6 TB with 8 TB 3.5" NL SAS or NL SATA HDDs and 3.84 TB 2.5" SAS SSDs
Up to 107.5 TB with 3.84 TB 2.5" SAS SSDs
Up to 56 TB with 2 TB 2.5" NL SATA HDDs
Up to 50.4 TB with 1.8 TB 2.5" SAS HDDs
Up to 8 TB with 2 TB NVMe PCIe SSDs
Intermix of SAS, SATA, and PCIe drives is supported.
Storage
controller
Onboard 6 Gb SATA: no RAID support
12 Gb SAS/SATA RAID: RAID 0, 1, 10 with M1215 or M5210. Optional upgrade to RAID 5,
50 is available for M1215. Optional upgrade to RAID 5, 50 is available for M5210 (zero-
cache; 1 GB non-backed cache; 1 GB, 2 GB or 4 GB flash-backed cache). Optional
upgrade to RAID 6, 60 is available for M5210 with memory cache upgrades.
12 Gb SAS/SATA non-RAID: N2215 HBA
Optical drive
bays
One for models with 8x 3.5" or up to 16x 2.5" drive bays (models with 24x 2.5" or 12x 3.5" drive
bays do not support an internal optical drive). Support for DVD-ROM or Multiburner.
Tape drive bays
None.
Network
interfaces
Four integrated RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet 1000BASE-T ports (BCM5719); optional Mezzanine LOM
(ML2) slot for dual-port 10 GbE cards with SFP+ or RJ-45 connectors or quad-port GbE cards with
RJ-45 connectors.
PCI Expansion
slots
Up to nine slots. Slots 0, 4, and 5 are the standard slots on the system planar, and the remaining
slots depend on the riser cards installed. The slots are as follows:
Slot 0: PCIe 3.0 x8 (dedicated for an internal RAID controller)
Slot 1: PCIe 3.0 x16 or PCIe 3.0 x8; full-height, full-length (PCIe x16 slot is double-wide)
Slot 2: PCIe 3.0 x8; full-height, full-length (not present if the slot 1 is PCIe x16)
Slot 3: PCIe 3.0 x8 or ML2; full-height, half-length
Slot 4: PCIe 3.0 x8; low profile (vertical slot on system planar)
Slot 5: PCIe 3.0 x16; low profile (vertical slot on system planar)
Slot 6: PCIe 3.0 x16 or PCIe 3.0 x8; full-height, full-length (PCIe x16 slot is double-wide)
Slot 7: PCIe 3.0 x8; full-height, full-length (not present if the slot 6 is PCIe x16)
Slot 8: PCIe 3.0 x8; full-height, half-length
Slots 5, 6, 7, and 8 require the second processor to be installed.
Components
Specification
Lenovo System x3650 M5 (E5-2600 v3)
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