Datasheet

Solid State Drives for IBM BladeCenter and System x servers 8
Supported disk controllers
The solid-state drives require a supported disk controller. The supported System x controllers are listed in
Table 8.
Table 8. Support RAID controllers for System x servers
RAID controller Part number Support SSDs
ServeRAID M5025 SAS/SATA Controller 46M0830 No
ServeRAID M5015 SAS/SATA Controller 46M0829 Planned†
ServeRAID M5014 SAS/SATA Controller 46M0916 Planned†
ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller 46M0831 No
ServeRAID B5015 SSD Controller 46M0969 Yes
IBM 6 Gb SSD Host Bus Adapter 7838-AC1 fc 3876* Yes
IBM 6 Gb SAS HBA 46M0907 No
IBM 3 Gb SAS HBA Controller v2 44E8700 No
ServeRAID MR10M SAS/SATA Controller 44E8825 No
ServeRAID MR10i SAS/SATA Controller 43W4296 No
ServeRAID MR10is VAULT SAS/SATA Controller 44E8695 No
ServeRAID MR10k SAS/SATA Controller 43W4280 No
ServeRAID BR10i SAS/SATA Controller 44E8689 No
ServeRAID BR10il SAS/SATA Controller 44X0411 No
ServeRAID BR10il SAS/SATA Controller v2 49Y4731 No
* The IBM 6 Gb SSD Host Bus Adapter is only available for configure-to-order (CTO) configurations. The building
block (SBB) part number is 46M0912.
† For use with SSDs, the ServeRAID M5015 and M5014 require the addition of the ServeRAID M5000 Series
Performance Accelerator Key, part number 81Y4426.