
The following figure shows how models with six 3.5-inch hot-swap drive bays can be upgraded to 12 drive
bays. Such a configuration requires two RAID controllers. Supported adapters are the ServeRAID M5210,
ServeRAID M1215, and N2215 host bus adapter.
Figure 8. Configurations of 3.5-inch drives
For configure-to-order configurations, the server also supports simple-swap 3.5-inch drives. The simple-
swap drives can be connected to the 6 Gb SATA ports on the system board of the server or to a RAID
controller. Only six 3.5-inch drives are supported; a configuration of 12 simple-swap drives is not
supported.
Figure 9. Simple-swap 3.5-inch drives
Lenovo System x3500 M5
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