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Outstanding value in a high-performance single-socket tower
server
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• Fast disk technology — Integrated high-speed (3Gbps) SATA II controller (model-specific)
and drives; RAID support standard
• Fast communications — Integrated Gigabit Ethernet controller
• Fast I/O — Three PCIe adapter slots, including two x8 slots
Flexibility
• Large memory capacity — Up to 16GB of DDR3 RDIMM memory, using 4 DIMMs
• Large disk capacity — Up to 4TB of internal SATA storage (model-specific)
• Internal tape or RDX Removable Disk Cartridge backup storage
• High-performance external expansion — Six external 480Mbps USB 2.0 ports (two front,
four rear), plus two internal USB 2.0 ports for tape or RDX Removable Disk Cartridge
drive, or USB flash drive containing a hypervisor
• Hardware RAID support standard in selected models; firmware RAID standard in all models
• Four available adapter slots:
One physical x16 / electrical x8 PCIe Gen 2 high-speed slot
One physical x8 /electrical x8 PCIe Gen 2 high-speed slot
One physical x4 /electrical x4 PCIe Gen 1 high-speed slot
One legacy 33MHz PCI slot
• Integrated DVD-ROM drive
Manageability, Serviceability and Availability
• BMC
IPMI 2.0 support
• Highly available RAID arrays
• ECC memory protection
• PFA support
• Efficient cooling
• Toolless chassis
Server Comparison Chart
The following table shows the suggested uses for the respective IBM System x tower servers, including comparisons of the uses for
which each server is best suited:
Important Nice to Have Can do without
1 2 3
Best
Better
Good
Theme Key Workloads
Scalability
Floating Point
Performance
Memory
Throughput
Integer
Performance
I/O and Storage
Density
High Availability
Systems
Management
Security
Distributed
Deployment
x3100
M3
x3200
M3
x3400
M3
x3500
M3
Cluster / HPC
3 1 1 2 2 1 3 3 3 3
Modeling & Simulation
2 1 1 1 3 1 3 2 3 3
High Performance DB
2 2 1 1 1 3 2 2 3 3
Business Intelligence
2 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 3
Search
3 1 1 1 2 1 3 3 1 2
Content
2 2 2 2 2 1 3 3 2 2
Communities
1 2 2 2 1 1 2 3 2 2
Commerce
2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 2
Collaboration
2 3 2 3 2 1 2 3 2 2
ERP/SCM
1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2
CRM
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 3
Hosted Client
1 3 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 2
Point of Sale
3 3 3 2 1 3 1 1 1 1
Branch Office
2 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 2 1
Virtualization
1 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 3
Business Continuity
2 3 3 3 1 2 2 1 2 2
Database
2 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 3
Email/Collaboration
2 3 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 2
Security
2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 3
Web Serving
3 2 2 2 3 1 2 1 3 3
File & Print
2 3 2 3 1 2 2 1 3 3
Requirements
Infrastructure
Applications
Web 2.0 /
Web 3D
HPC
Business
Applications
Towers