SCSI: 2.5-inch flash drives
SFF 2.5-inch disk drives
LFF 3.5-inch disk drives
IBM FlashCore Modules. Storage Class Memory
Max IOPs: 3.5M IOPs
RAID levels: Distributed RAID 1, 5 and 6
Min latency: Under 50µs
Max bandwidth: 45 GB/s
Maximum drives supported: Maximum of 392 drives per system
Max. LAN Speed: 16/32 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC, NVMeoF)
10 Gbps Ethernet (iSCSI)
10/25/100 Gbps Ethernet (iSCSI and NVMe RDMA)
Max Memory Supported: Maximum up to 3TB per CPU socket
PCI Express: 8 x PCIe slots (Gen5 x16 link, FH,FL) for dual-slot GPU cards
Front: 1 x PCIe slot (Gen5 x8 link ,LP,HL) for HBA/RAID cards
Rear: 1 x PCIe slot (Gen5 x16 link) for NIC, 1 x PCIe slot (Gen5 x8 link) for NIC
Serial ATA: 8 x NVMe/SAS*/SATA + 4 NVMe/SATA
(*HBA/RAID card is required to support SAS hard drives)
PCI Express: Up to 9 slots
6 x PCIe G5 x8 link or 3 x PCIe G5 x16 link (FHFL or FHHL)
1 x PCIe G5 x16 link (FHHL)
1 x OCP 3.0/PCIe Gen5 x16 link (FHHL)
1 x PCIe G5 x16, LP
Hot-Swap Bays: Front Side Drive Bay: 12 Hot-swap 3.5" drive bays*
Front Side Backplane: 12-port 12Gbps* passive backplane * SAS drive is only supported with additional RAID/HBA cards
Rear Side: 4 Hot-swap 2.5" drive bays
Rear Side Bakplane: 2-port 12Gbps* and 2-port PCIe3.0 backplane * SAS drive is only supported with additional RAID/HBA cards