Optical Drives; External Disk Storage Expansion - IBM x3755 M3 At-A-Glance Manual

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 IBM 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


External disk storage expansion

Currently, external disk storage expansion (JBOD) is not supported.
IBM System x3755 M3
Maximum quantity Standard models
supported where used
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