Internal Drive Options - Lenovo System x3550 M5 Product Manual

The ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA Controller has the following specifications:
Eight internal 12 Gbps SAS/SATA ports
Up to 12 Gbps throughput per port
Two x4 HD mini-SAS internal connectors (SFF-8643)
Supports connections to SAS/SATA HDDs and SSDs and SAS Expanders
Supports RAID 0, 1, and 10
Supports RAID 5 and 50 with optional M5200 Series RAID 5 upgrades
Supports RAID 6 and 60 with the optional M5200 Series RAID 6 upgrade
Optional support for self-encrypting drives (SEDs) with MegaRAID SafeStore (with RAID 5 upgrade)
Supports 1 GB non-backed cache or 1 GB, 2 GB, or 4 GB flash-backed cache
PCIe 3.0 x8 host interface
Based on the LSI SAS3108 12 Gbps ROC controller
The N2215 SAS/SATA HBA has the following specifications:
Eight internal 12 Gbps SAS/SATA ports
Up to 12 Gbps throughput per port
Two x4 HD mini-SAS internal connectors (SFF-8643)
Supports connections to SAS/SATA HDDs and SSDs
Optimized for SSD performance
No RAID support
PCIe 3.0 x8 host interface
Based on the LSI SAS3008 12 Gbps controller
For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the RAID adapters category:
http://lenovopress.com/systemx/raid

Internal drive options

The following table lists hard drive options for internal disk storage of the x3550 M5 server.
Table 10. 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
2.5-inch hot-swap HDDs - 6 Gbps SAS
00AJ096 A4TL
00AJ081 A4TR
System x3550 M5
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
300GB 10K 6Gbps SAS 2.5" G3HS HDD
300GB 15K 6Gbps SAS 2.5" G3HS HDD
Maximum
supported
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
20