Power 720 System Features; Power 740 System Features - IBM Power 720 Overview

1.4.1 Power 720 system features

The standard features are as follows:
Tower or rack-mount (4U) chassis
Configuration of 4-core, 6-core, or 8-core, with one 3.6 GHz processor module
Up to 512 GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC memory
An integrated SAS controller, offering RAID 0, 1, and 10 support
Choice of two disk/media backplanes:
– Six 2.5-inch HDD/SSD/Media backplane with one tape drive bay and one DVD bay
– Eight 2.5-inch HDD/SSD/Media backplane with one tape drive bay, one DVD bay, Dual
175 MB Write Cache RAID with RAID 5 and 6 support, and one external SAS port
A PCIe x4 Gen2 slot containing PCIe2 4-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX Ethernet adapter
A maximum of nine PCIe Gen2 slots:
– Five PCIe x8 full-height short card slots
– Optional four PCIe x8 low-profile short card slots
One GX++ slot
Integrated:
– Service processor
– EnergyScale technology
– Hot-swap and redundant cooling
– Three USB ports and two system ports
– Two HMC ports and two SPCN ports
Optional redundant, 1925 Watt AC hot-swap power supplies

1.4.2 Power 740 system features

The standard features are as follows:
Tower (4U) chassis
Processors:
– Configuration of 6-core or 12-core, with one or two 4.2 GHz 6-core processor modules
– Configuration of 8-core or 16-core, with one or two 8-core processor modules that are
running at 3.6 GHz or 4.2 GHz.
Up to 1024 GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC memory
An integrated SAS controller, offering RAID 0, 1, and 10 support
Choice of two disk/media backplanes:
– Six 2.5-inch HDD/SSD/Media backplanes with one tape drive bay and one DVD bay
– Eight 2.5-inch HDD/SSD/Media backplanes with one tape drive bay, one DVD bay,
Dual 175 MB Write Cache RAID with RAID 5 and 6 support, and one external SAS port
A PCIe x4 Gen2 slot containing a PCIe2 4-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX Ethernet adapter
A maximum of nine PCIe Gen2 slots:
– Five PCIe x8 full-height short card slots
– Optional four PCIe x8 low-profile short card slots
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IBM Power 720 and 740 Technical Overview and Introduction