IBM System X3550 M5 Server

Form Factor

1U Rack

Hard Drive

Up to 12x 2.5 SAS/SATA hot-swap drive bays:10x 2.5 (front) + 2x 2.5 (rear)

8x 2.5 SAS/SATA hot-swap (front) + 2x PCIe SSD non-hot-swap (front) drive bays

Up to 8x 2.5 SAS/SATA hot-swap drive bays: 4x 2.5 (front) + 4x 2.5 (front)

4x 3.5 SAS/SATA hot-swap drive bays (front)

Maximum Internal
Storage

Up to 92 TB with 12x 7.68 TB 2.5 SAS SSDs

Up to 48 TB with 4x 12 TB 3.5 NL SAS or NL SATA HDDs

Up to 24 TB with 12x 2 TB 2.5 NL SATA HDDs

Up to 28.8 TB with 12x 2.4 TB 2.5 SAS HDDs

Up to 8 TB with 2x 4 TB NVMe PCIe SSDs

Memory

Up to 24 DIMM sockets (12 DIMMs per processor; four memory channels per processor with three DIMMs per channel).

Processor

Up to two processors of the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family