Datasheet

IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node 11
Internal disk storage options
The x240 server has two 2.5" hot-swap drive bays accessible from the front of the blade server (Figure 2).
These bays are connected to the integrated 4-port LSI SAS2004 6 Gbps SAS/SATA RAID-on-Chip (ROC)
controller.
The integrated LSI SAS2004 ROC has the following features:
Four-port controller with 6 Gbps throughput per port
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PCIe x4 Gen 2 host interface
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Two SAS ports routed internally to the two hot-swap drive bays
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Supports RAID levels 0 (Integrated Striping), 1 (Integrated Mirroring), 10 (Integrated Mirroring and
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Striping), and 1E (Integrated Mirroring Enhanced)
The 2.5" drive bays support SAS or SATA hard disk drives (HDDs) or SATA solid state drives (SSDs).
The following table lists the supported 2.5" drive options.
Table 6. 2.5-inch drive options for internal disk storage
Part number Feature
code
Description Maximum
supported
10K SAS hard disk drives
42D0637 5599 IBM 300GB 10K 6Gbps SAS 2.5" SFF Slim-HS HDD 2
49Y2003 5433 IBM 600GB 10K 6Gbps SAS 2.5" SFF Slim-HS HDD 2
81Y9650 A282 IBM 900GB 10K 6Gbps SAS 2.5" SFF HS HDD 2
15K SAS hard disk drives
42D0677 5536 IBM 146GB 15K 6Gbps SAS 2.5" SFF Slim-HS HDD 2
81Y9670 A283 IBM 300GB 15K 6Gbps SAS 2.5" SFF HS HDD 2
NL SATA
81Y9722 A1NX IBM 250GB 7.2K 6Gbps NL SATA 2.5" SFF HS HDD 2
81Y9726 A1NZ IBM 500GB 7.2K 6Gbps NL SATA 2.5" SFF HS HDD 2
81Y9730 A1AV IBM 1TB 7.2K 6Gbps NL SATA 2.5" SFF HS HDD 2
NL SAS
42D0707 5409 IBM 500GB 7200 6Gbps NL SAS 2.5" SFF Slim-HS HDD 2
81Y9690 A1P3 IBM 1TB 7.2K 6Gbps NL SAS 2.5" SFF HS HDD 2
Solid state drives
43W7718 A2FN IBM 200GB SATA 2.5" MLC HS SSD 2
90Y8643 A2U3 IBM 256GB SATA 2.5" MLC HS Enterprise Value SSD 2
90Y8648 A2U4 IBM 128GB SATA 2.5" MLC HS Enterprise Value SSD 2
49Y5844 A3AU IBM 512GB SATA 2.5" MLC HS Enterprise Value SSD 2
49Y5839 A3AS IBM 64GB SATA 2.5" MLC HS Enterprise Value SSD 2