Drives For Internal Storage - Lenovo System x3550 M5 Product Manual

The following table lists drive types and internal bays supported by the drive controllers.
Table 11. Controllers, drive types, and internal drive bays
Drive Drive type
controller
Integrated SAS/NL SAS HDD
SATA
NL SATA HDD
SAS SED
SAS SSD
SATA SSD
M1215 SAS/NL SAS HDD
M5210
NL SATA HDD
SAS SED
SAS SSD
SATA SSD
N2215 SAS/NL SAS HDD
NL SATA HDD
SAS SED
SAS SSD
SATA SSD
* SEDs are supported with RAID 5 FoD upgrades or cache upgrades.

Drives for internal storage

The following table lists hard drive options for internal disk storage of the x3550 M5 server.
Table 12. Internal drive options (Part 1: 2.5-inch hot-swap drives)
Part Feature
number code
2.5-inch hot-swap HDDs - 12 Gbps SAS
00WG685 AT89
00WG660 AT84
00NA221 ASBB
00WG690 AT8A
00NA241 ASBF
00WG665 AT85
00NA231 ASBD
00WG695 AT8B
00NA251 ASBH
00WG700 AT8C
00NA261 ASBK
00NA271 ASBM
Lenovo System x3550 M5
Drive bays
Up to 12x 2.5-inch
hot-swap
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional*
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Description
300GB 10K 12Gbps SAS 2.5" G3HS HDD
300GB 15K 12Gbps SAS 2.5" G3HS HDD
300GB 15K 12Gbps SAS 2.5" G3HS 512e HDD
600GB 10K 12Gbps SAS 2.5" G3HS HDD
600GB 10K 12Gbps SAS 2.5" G3HS 512e HDD
600GB 15K 12Gbps SAS 2.5" G3HS HDD
600GB 15K 12Gbps SAS 2.5" G3HS 512e HDD
900GB 10K 12Gbps SAS 2.5" G3HS HDD
900GB 10K 12Gbps SAS 2.5" G3HS 512e HDD
1.2TB 10K 12Gbps SAS 2.5" G3HS HDD
1.2TB 10K 12Gbps SAS 2.5" G3HS 512e HDD
1.8TB 10K 12Gbps SAS 2.5" G3HS 512e HDD
Up to 8x 2.5-inch 4x 3.5-inch
Simple Swap hot-swap
No No
Yes No
No No
No No
No No
No Yes
Yes Yes
No No
No No
No Yes
No Yes
Yes Yes
No No
No No
No Yes
4x 3.5-inch
Simple Swap
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Maximum
supported
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
18