Datasheet

Solid State Drives for IBM BladeCenter and System x servers 9
Supported servers
The solid state drives and supported RAID controllers can be installed in the System x servers identified
in Table 9.
Table 9. Supported servers
IBM 6 Gb
SSD HBA
ServeRAID
B5015
ServeRAID
M5014†
ServeRAID
M5015†
Part number fc 3876* 46M0969 46M0916 46M0829
IBM System x3200 M3 N N Y Y
IBM System x3250 M3 N N Y Y
IBM System x3400 M3 N N Y Y
IBM System x3500 M3 N N Y Y
IBM System x3550 M3 Y Y Y Y
IBM System x3620 M3 N N Y Y
IBM System x3630 M3 N N Y Y
IBM System x3650 M3 Y Y Y Y
IBM System x3690 X5 Y Y Y Y
IBM System x3755 M3 N N Y Y
IBM System x3850 X5 Y Y Y Y
* 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.
See the IBM ServerProven® website for the latest information about the adapters supported by each
System x server type: http://ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/
The solid state drives are also supported in BladeCenter servers, as listed in Table 10.
Table 10. Supported BladeCenter servers
Expansion card
Part
number
IBM 50 GB SATA 2.5" SFF Slim-HS High IOPS SSD 43W7714 N N N Y N N N N N
IBM 50 GB SATA 2.5" SFF HS High IOPS SSD 43W7722 N N N N N N N N N
IBM 50 GB SATA 2.5" SFF NHS High IOPS SSD 43W7706 Y Y Y N N N N N N
IBM 50 GB SATA 1.8" SSD 43W7734 N N N N Y Y N N N
IBM 50 GB SATA 1.8" MLC SSD 43W7726 N N N N Y Y N N N
IBM 200 GB SATA 1.8" MLC SSD 43W7746 N N N N Y* Y* N N Y
* Support is planned