Solid-State Drives (Ssds) - IBM System x3850 X5 Implementation Manual

Top side of the SSD Expansion Card
with one SSD installed in drive bay 0
Figure 5-18 SSD Expansion Card for the HX5 (left: top view; right: underside view)
The SSD Expansion Card can be installed in the HX5 in combination with a CIOv I/O
expansion card and CFFh I/O expansion card, as shown in Figure 5-19.
Figure 5-19 Placement of SSD expansion card in combination with a CIOv card and CFFh card
ServeRAID MR10ie support: The HX5 does not currently support the ServeRAID MR10ie
RAID controller.

5.11.1 Solid-state drives (SSDs)

SSDs are a relatively new technology in the server world. SSDs are more reliable than
spinning hard disk drives. SSDs consume much less power than a standard serial-attached
SCSI (SAS) drive, approximately 0.5 W (SSD) versus 11 W (SAS).
Target applications for SSDs include video surveillance, transaction-based database (DB),
and other applications that have high performance but moderate space requirements.
Table 5-23 on page 205 lists the supported SSDs.
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Underside of the SSD Expansion Card
showing PCIe connector and LSI
1064E controller
SSD
expansion
card
CIOv
expansion
card
CFFh
expansion
card