Product guide

IBM System x3630 M4 16

Backplanes

Standard models ship with four or eight 3.5-inch SATA simple-swap drive bays or eight 3.5-inch

SAS/SATA hot-swap drive bays. Storage-rich models ship with twelve 3.5-inch SAS/SATA hot-swap drive

bays, and they can also be upgraded to fourteen 3.5-inch hot-swap drive bay models with the optional rear

HDD cage assembly. The following table shows the internal storage expansion options that are available.

Table 6. Internal storage expansion options

Part

number

Feature

code

Description Maximum

supported

Standard models

where used

00D9034 A1Z9 3.5" Hot Swap Cage Assembly, Rear, 2 x 3.5" 1 -

00D9051 A1ZL x3630 M4 ODD Cage assembly 1 A2x, A4x, B2x, C2x, C4x,

F4x, G2x

90Y6370 A1ZM USB Tape Drive Cage assembling kit 1 -

Option 00D9034 is used to upgrade standard (see Table 2) or custom (CTO or special bid) models with

twelve 3.5-inch hot-swap drive bays to fourteen 3.5-inch hot-swap drive bays. This option contains the

HDD backplane, drive cage, signal and data cables, and two 1U riser cards: PCIe Riser Card 1 (1 x8

FH/HL + 1 x8 LP Slots) and PCIe Riser Card 2 (1 x4 LP for Slotless RAID). These 1U riser cards replace

the standard 2U riser cards used in the models with twelve 3.5-inch hot-swap drive bays, limiting the

maximum number of I/O slots to three (for more information, see the I/O expansion options section).

Option 00D9051 upgrades any four or eight bay model with an internal optical drive bay (for DVD-ROM or

Multiburner). This option includes one USB cable and one power cable. The optical drive is ordered

separately. This option is mutually exclusive with 90Y6370, Tape Drive Cage assembly.

Note: Option 00D9051, x3630 M4 ODD Cage assembly comes standard with every four or eight bay

standard model listed in Table 2.

Option 90Y6370 upgrades any four or eight bay model with an internal tape drive bay (for DDS5 or DDS6

tape drives). This option includes one USB cable and one power cable. The tape drive is ordered

separately. This option is mutually exclusive with 90Y6370, ODD Cage assembly.