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A highly available and expandable, rack-dense, 1U dual-socket SMP server, for application
serving in Web environments
Length of limited warranty
The Bottom Line
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For terms and conditions or copies of the IBM Statement of Limited Warranty, call 800-772-2227 in the U.S. In Canada call 800-
426-2255. IBM makes no representation or warranty regarding third-party products or services including those designated as
ServerProven or ClusterProven. Telephone support may be subject to additional charges. For warranties including onsite labor, a
technician is sent after IBM attempts to resolve the problem remotely. International warranty service is available in any country in
which this product is sold.
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The x8 slots can accept x1, x4, or x8 adapters running at x1, x4, or x8 throughput, respectively.
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x3550 Specifications
The x3550 is an extremely powerful system, incorporating leading-edge industry-standard
features and adding IBM-unique innovations:
Price/Performance
• High-throughput processors — 1.6 to 3.16GHz quad-core or 1.6 to 3.0GHz dual-core
Xeon processors; up to 8 (quad-core) or 4 (dual-core) processor cores total
• Energy-efficient low-voltage processors — 50W quad-core and 65W dual-core Xeon
processors
• Large cache — 12MB, 8MB, 6MB or 4MB of L2 processor cache
• 64-bit extensions (EM64T)
• Leading-edge front-side bus — 1333MHz or 1066MHz FSB (model-specific)
• Fast memory — Fully buffered 667MHz PC2-5300 DDR II ECC memory standard with two-
way or four-way interleaving
• Fast disk technology — Integrated SAS controller and slotless hardware-based RAID-0 data
striping and RAID-10 striped/mirrored arrays, or SATA controller (model-specific)
• Fast communications — Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet controllers, supporting Jumbo
Frames and TOE
• Fast I/O —PCI-E x8 adapter slots
Flexibility
• Large memory capacity — Up to 32GB of fully buffered memory, using 8 DIMMs
• The choice of two 3.5-inch or four 2.5-inch hot-swap SAS drives, or two 3.5-inch simple-
swap SATA II drives
• Choice of disk storage — Up to 2TB of internal SATA II storage, 600GB of internal SAS
storage (3.5-inch), or 587.2GB of internal SAS storage (2.5-inch)
• High-performance external expansion — Six 480Mbps USB 2.0 ports (two front, four rear)
• Hardware-based RAID-0/1/10 support standard (in SAS models); optional slotless RAID
support for RAID-1E/5/6
• Two available adapter slots —
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Two x8
PCI-E slots (4GBps)
An optional riser card containing one 133MHz PCI-X slot can replace the riser card
containing one of the PCI-E slots
• Integrated DVD/CD-RW combo drive
• Two video ports (one on the front and one on the back)
• Optional iSCSI HBA Adapter for IXA Connectivity (to System i
Manageability, Serviceability and Availability
• IBM Director systems management software, including:
IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager for x86
IBM Management Processor Assistant
IBM Rack Manager
IBM RAID Manager
IBM Update Assistant
IBM Software Distribution
IBM System Availability
• IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager for x86
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3 years (parts and labor)
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