Internal Disk Storage Options; Internal Backup Units; Optical Drives - IBM BladeCenter HX5 Product Manual

Internal disk storage options

The storage system on the HX5 blade is based on the use of the optional SSD Expansion Card for IBM
BladeCenter HX5, which contains an LSI 1064E SAS Controller and two 1.8-inch micro SATA drive
connectors. The SSD Expansion Card allows the attachment of two 1.8-inch solid state drives (SSDs). If
two SSDs are installed, the HX5 supports RAID-0 or RAID-1 capability. The SSD Expansion Card is
installed in a dedicated slot (Figure 2) and does not block either the CFFh or the CIOv slot.
Installation of the SSDs in the HX5 requires the SSD Expansion Card for IBM BladeCenter HX5, as listed
in the following table. Only one SSD Expansion Card is needed for either one or two SSDs.
Table 10. SSD Expansion Card
Part number Feature
code
46M6908 5765
The following tables list the hard drive options available for internal storage.
Table 11. Disk drive options for internal disk storage for machine type 7873 (Intel Xeon E7 series
processors)
Part number Feature
code
43W7726 5428
43W7746 5420
00W1120 A3HQ
49Y6119 A3AN
49Y6124 A3AP

Internal backup units

The server does not support an internal tape drive option.

Optical drives

The server does not support an optical drive option. However, it does interface to the optical drive
installed in the BladeCenter chassis media tray if one is installed there.
IBM BladeCenter HX5
Name
SSD Expansion Card for IBM BladeCenter HX5
Description
IBM 50GB SATA 1.8" MLC SSD
IBM 200GB SATA 1.8" MLC SSD
IBM 100GB SATA 1.8" MLC Enterprise SSD
IBM 200GB SATA 1.8" MLC Enterprise SSD
IBM 400GB SATA 1.8" MLC Enterprise SSD
Maximum
supported
1
Maximum
supported
2
2
2
2
2
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