Standard Specifications - IBM System x3100 M4 Product Manual

Standard specifications

Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Components
Form factor
Processor
Memory cache
Chipset
Memory DIMM slots
Memory capacity
Memory protection
Disk drive bays
Maximum internal
storage
RAID support
Optical drive bay
Tape drive bays
Network interfaces
PCI Expansion slots
External ports
Cooling
Power supply
Hot-swap components
Systems management
IBM System x3100 M4
Specification
Tower (can be a 4U rack form factor using the optional Tower-to-Rack conversion kit).
One quad-core Intel Xeon E3-1200 or Xeon E3-1200 v2 series processor (up to 3.6
GHz/8 MB/1600 MHz) or one dual-core Intel Core i3 processor (up to 3.4 GHz/3
MB/1333 MHz), or one dual-core Pentium processor (up to 3.1 GHz/3 MB/1333 MHz) or
one Intel Celeron (1.6 GHz/1 MB/1066 MHz)
Up to 8 MB L3 for Intel Xeon E3-1200 and E3-1200 v2 processors. Up to 3 MB L3 for
Intel Core i3 and Pentium processors.
Intel C202.
4 DDR3 DIMM slots.
Up to 32 GB with 8 GB DDR3 UDIMMs and four populated DIMM slots. RDIMMs are not
supported.
ECC.
Up to four 3.5" Simple Swap SATA HDDs.
Up to 12 TB with 3 TB 3.5" SATA HDDs.
Software RAID 0, 1, 10 with ServeRAID C100 controller; hardware RAID 0, 1, 1E with
ServeRAID H1110, BR10il v2, M1015, M5014 and M5015. Optional RAID 5, 50 with
ServeRAID M5014. Optional upgrade to RAID 5 is available for M1015.
One 5.25" HH bay, support for DVD-ROM or Multiburner. Half-High SATA DVD-ROM
standard in standard models.
One 5.25 HH bay, support for DDS, RDX, or LTO.
Integrated two-port Gigabit Ethernet (Intel 82574L) / 1 port is shared with IMM2.
Four PCI Express slots:
Slot 1, PCIe 3.0 x8, full-height, half-length (PCIe 2.0 in models with processors
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announced September 2011 - see Table 4)
Slot 2, PCIe 3.0 x16 (x8 wired), full-height, half-length (PCIe 2.0 in models with
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processors announced September 2011 - see Table 4)
Slot 3, PCIe 2.0 x4, full-height, half-length
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Slot 4, PCIe 2.0 x1, full-height, half-length
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Two USB 2.0 ports on front. Four USB 2.0, one DB-15 video, one DB-9 serial, two RJ-45
Gigabit Ethernet network ports (one is dedicated, one is shared with IMM2) on rear. One
internal USB port for internal USB tape drive.
One speed-controlled non-redundant fan.
One fixed 350 W AC or 300 W AC 80Plus Bronze power supply (model dependent)
None.
UEFI, IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2), Predictive Failure Analysis,
Automatic Server Restart, IBM Systems Director and IBM Systems Director Active
Energy Manager™, IBM ServerGuide. Optional IMM2 Standard and IMM2 Advanced
Upgrade via Feature on Demand (FoD) for additional management capabilities including
remote presence (graphics, keyboard and mouse, virtual media).
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