Optical Drives - IBM BladeCenter HS23 Product Manual

Supports SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs
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Supports connectivity to the EXP2500 series and EXP3000 storage expansion enclosures
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Support connectivity to the tape drives and external storage systems
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Table 9 lists the hard drive options that are available for internal storage.
Table 9. Disk drive options for internal disk storage
Part number Description
SAS HDDs
90Y8926 IBM 146GB 15K 6Gbps SAS 2.5" SFF G2HS HDD
90Y8877 IBM 300GB 10K 6Gbps SAS 2.5" SFF G2HS HDD
81Y9670 IBM 300GB 15K 6Gbps SAS 2.5" Slim-HS HDD
90Y8872 IBM 600GB 10K 6Gbps SAS 2.5" SFF G2HS HDD
81Y9650 IBM 900GB 10K 6Gbps SAS 2.5" Slim-HS HDD
NL SAS HDDs
90Y8953 IBM 500GB 7.2K 6Gbps NL SAS 2.5" SFF G2HS HDD
81Y9690 IBM 1TB 7.2K 6Gbps NL SAS 2.5'' SFF Slim-HS HDD
SATA HDDs
81Y9722 IBM 250GB 7.2K 6Gbps SATA 2.5'' SFF Slim-HS HDD
81Y9726 IBM 500GB 7.2K 6Gbps SATA 2.5'' SFF Slim-HS HDD
81Y9730 IBM 1TB 7.2K 6Gbps SATA 2.5'' SFF Slim-HS HDD
SATA SSDs
43W7718 IBM 200GB SATA 2.5'' SFF Slim-HS SSD
90Y8648 IBM 128GB SATA 2.5'' SFF HS SSD
90Y8643 IBM 256GB SATA 2.5'' SFF HS SSD
Internal tape drives
The server does not support an internal tape drive. However, it can be attached to external tape drives
using SAS or Fibre Channel connectivity (Table 25).

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.
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