Lenovo System x3550 M5 Product Manual page 6

Components Specification
Drive bays
Storage capacity
Intermix of SAS, SATA, and PCIe drives is supported.
Storage controller
Optical drive bays One, optional, for models with 4 or 8 drive bays (models with 10 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 Up to four slots, depending on the riser cards installed. The slots are as follows:
slots
Ports
Cooling Calibrated Vectored Cooling with up to eight redundant hot-swap fans (six standard,
additional two with the second processor or with the x3550 M5 Thermal Solution Kit); dual fan
zones with N+1 fan redundancy; each fan has two motors.
Power supply Up to two redundant hot-swap 550 W, 750 W, or 900 W (100-240V), or 1500 W (200-240V)
High Efficiency Platinum AC power supplies, or 750 W High Efficiency Titanium AC power
supplies, or 900 W High Efficiency -48 V DC power supplies.
Hot-swap parts Hard drives, power supplies, and fans.
Lenovo System x3550 M5 (E5-2600 v3)
Up to 12x 2.5" SAS/SATA hot-swap drive bays: 10x 2.5" (front) + 2x 2.5" (rear)
8x 2.5" SAS/SATA hot-swap (front) + 2x PCIe SSD non-hot-swap (front) drive bays
Up to 8x 2.5" SAS/SATA hot-swap drive bays: 4x 2.5" (front) + 4x 2.5" (front)
Up to 8x 2.5" SATA Simple Swap drive bays: 4x 2.5" (front) + 4x 2.5" (front)
4x 3.5" SAS/SATA hot-swap drive bays
4x 3.5" SATA Simple Swap drive bays
Up to 46 TB with 3.84 TB 2.5" SAS SSDs
Up to 32 TB with 8 TB 3.5" NL SAS or NL SATA HDDs
Up to 24 TB with 2 TB 2.5" NL SATA HDDs
Up to 21.6 TB with 1.8 TB 2.5" SAS HDDs
Up to 4 TB with 2 TB NVMe PCIe SSDs
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. Optional SSD Caching and Performance Accelerator upgrades are available.
12 Gb SAS/SATA non-RAID: N2215 HBA
Slot 1: PCIe 3.0 x16 or ML2; low profile, half-length (not present if the HDD Rear Kit is
installed)
Slot 2: PCIe 3.0 x16 or PCIe 3.0 x8; low profile or full-height, half-length (PCIe 3.0 x16
slot requires the second processor to be installed) (not present if the HDD Rear Kit is
installed)
Slot 3: PCIe 3.0 x16 or PCIe 3.0 x8; low profile, half-length
Slot 4: PCIe 3.0 x8 (dedicated for an internal RAID controller)
Front: 1x USB 2.0 (8x 2.5" drive bay models) or 2x USB 2.0 l (4x 3.5" and 10x 2.5"
drive bay models), 1x USB 3.0, and 1x DB-15 video.
Rear: 2x USB 3.0, 1x USB 2.0, 1x DB-15 video, 1x RJ-45 systems management, 4x RJ-
45 GbE network ports. Optional 1x DB-9 serial port.
Internal: 1x USB 3.0 port (for embedded hypervisor).
Internal: 1x SD Media Adapter slot (for embedded hypervisor)
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