IBM System x3400 M2 7837E1U Fascicule

Tower/5U (rack-mountable)

Processor (max)

Intel® Xeon® E5540 up to 2.53 GHz and up to 8 MB cache

Number of processors (std/max)

1/2

Cache (max)

4 MB or 8 MB per processor socket

(max)

2 GB/96 GB registered DDR-3 DIMMs

5 PCI-Express and 1 PCI; 2 PCI-X or 1 PCI-E (optional)

Disk bays (total/hot-swap)

4/4 or 8/8 (model dependent)

4.0 TB hot-swap Serial ATA hard disk drives (HDDs); 1.2 TB

hot-swap SAS, 3.0 TB simple-swap Serial ATA, or 2.4 TB 

hot-swap SFF SAS

Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet

Power supply (std/max)

670 W 1/1

Hard disk drives, fans

Integrated RAID-0, -1, -1E (software or hardware, model

dependent), optional RAID-10, -5, -50, -6, -60

Integrated management module (IMM); optional remote

presence hardware key; IBM Systems Director; IBM Systems

Director Active Energy Manager™

Microsoft® Windows®, Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, SUSE

Linux Enterprise, VMware ESX

1-/3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited

warranty

U.S.

Canada

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1

Maximum internal hard disk and memory

capacities may require the replacement of any

standard hard drives or memory, and the

population of all hard disk bays and memory

slots with the largest currently supported drives

available. When referring to variable speed 

CD-ROMs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs and DVDs, actual

playback speed will vary and is often less than

the maximum possible.

2

When referring to storage capacity, 

GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes, and 

TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Accessible

capacity is less.

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