Internal Tape Drives; Optical Drives - IBM System x3250 M4 At-A-Glance Manual

Internal tape drives

The server does not support internal tape drive options.

Optical drives

The server supports the optical drive options listed in the following table.
Table 8. Optical drives
Part number Description
46M0901 IBM UltraSlim Enhanced SATA DVD-ROM
46M0902 UltraSlim Enhanced SATA Multi-Burner
IBM UltraSlim Enhanced SATA DVD-ROM (part number 46M0901) supports the following media and
speeds for reading:
CD-ROM 24X

CD-DA (DAE) 20X

CD-R 24X

CD-RW 24X

DVD-ROM (single layer) 8X

DVD-ROM (dual layer) 8X

DVD-R (4.7 GB) 6X

DVD-R DL 4X

DVD+R 6X

DVD+R DL 4X

DVD-RW (4.7 GB) 4X

DVD+RW 4X

DVD-RAM (4.7/9.4 GB) 4X

IBM UltraSlim Enhanced SATA Multi-Burner (part number 46M0902) supports the same media and
speeds for reading as DVD-ROM (46M0901). In addition, this drive supports the following media and
speeds for writing:
CD-R 24X

CD-RW 4X

High Speed CD-RW 10X

Ultra Speed CD-RW 16X

Ultra Speed Plus CD-RW 16X

DVD-R 8X

DVD-R DL 6X

DVD+R 8X

DVD+R DL 6X

DVD-RW 6X

DVD+RW 8X

DVD-RAM 5X

IBM System x3250 M4
Maximum quantity Standard models
supported where used
1 -
1 -
10