Product guide

IBM System x3100 M4 6
Standard specifications
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Components Specification
Form factor Compact mini-tower which can be converted to a 4U rack form factor (models with fixed
power supplies) or standard tower which can be converted to a 5U form factor (models
with hot-swap power supplies), using an optional Tower-to-Rack conversion kit.
Processor 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)
Memory cache 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.
Chipset Intel C202.
Memory DIMM slots 4 DDR3 DIMM slots.
Memory capacity Up to 32 GB with 8 GB DDR3 UDIMMs and four populated DIMM slots. RDIMMs are not
supported.
Memory protection ECC.
Disk drive bays Up to four 3.5" Simple Swap SATA HDDs.
Maximum internal
storage
Up to 16 TB with 4 TB 3.5" SATA HDDs.
Up to 9.6 TB with 1.2 TB 2.5" NL SAS or NL SATA HDD.
Up to 12.8 TB with 1.6 TB 2.5" SSD.
RAID support 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.
Optical drive bay One 5.25" HH bay, support for DVD-ROM or Multiburner. Half-High SATA DVD-ROM
standard in standard models.
Tape drive bays One 5.25 HH bay, support for DDS, RDX, or LTO.
Network interfaces Integrated two-port Gigabit Ethernet (Intel 82574L) / 1 port is shared with IMM2.
PCI Expansion slots 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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External ports 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.
Cooling One speed-controlled non-redundant fan.
Power supply One fixed 350 W AC or 300 W AC 80Plus Bronze power supply or up to two 430W
hot-swap 80Plus redundant power supplies (model dependent)
Hot-swap components Some models: disk drives and power supplies. See Table 2.