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IBM System x3250 M2 at a glance
Form factor/height Rack/1U
Processor (CPU GHz/L2 Intel®Xeon®3370 (quad-core) (up to 3.0 GHz/12 MB/
cache/front-side bus 1333 MHz) or Intel Xeon 3100 (dual-core) (up to 3.16 GHz/
MHz max) 6 MB/1333 MHz) or Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 (up to 2.80 GHz/
3 MB/1066 MHz) or Intel Pentium®(dual-core) (up to
2.66 GHz/2 MB/800 MHz) or Intel Celeron®(up to
2.0 GHz/512 KB/800 MHz)
Number of processors (std/max) 1/1
Memory1(max) 1 GB standard/8 GB maximum 667 MHz or 800 MHz via
4 DIMM slots
Expansion slots 1 PCI-Express (x8), 1 PCI-Express (x4)
Disk bays (total/hot-swap) Two 3.5" simple-swap SATA or 3.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA or
four 2.5" hot-swap SAS HDDs
Maximum internal storage1, 2 2.0 TB SATA or 600 GB SAS
Network interface Dual Gigabit Ethernet
Power supply (std/max) 350W 1/1
RAID support Integrated hardware RAID-0, -1 standard hot-swap models and
optional simple swap models; RAID-5 optional for hot-swap
and simple swap models
Systems management IPMI 2.0-compliant mini-BMC2, optional Remote Supervisor
Adapter II SlimLine
Operating systems supported Microsoft®Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows
Server 2003, Windows®Small Business Server 2003 R2, Red
Hat Enterprise Linux®5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
Limited warranty31-year or 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited
warranty
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