System x3550: Overview

Highlights

• High-performance design to maximise your IT investment
• Manage growth and risk for improved business availability with IBM X-Architecture features
• Go green and save with new design and tools for optimised power management.

Optimised for speed

Designed for applications ranging from Web serving to workload consolidation and virtualization, the IBM System x3550 offers high-speed, dual-core and quad-core processors with blazing front-side bus speed. Optimised for exceptional application computing, the x3550 features a highly functional infrastructure that addresses more memory, lowers power consumption and provides dramatic systems performance increases.

Innovation comes standard

Standard integrated data protection with hardware redundant array of independent disks (RAID) and 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives (HDDs) keeps your data safe and readily available. Super-efficient network communication and hot-swap redundant power help keep your business humming at lower support costs.

Product features

• Reduced power usage with power-efficient, low-voltage processors and low-power 2.5" HDDs
• Optimised power management with new integrated tools such as the IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager solution
• Better application performance with snoop filters
• Calibrated Vectored Cooling (CVC) helps maintain healthy system by keeping internal components cool

Hardware summary

• Space-saving, 1U chassis
• Up to two Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processors X5270 up to 3.5 GHz with up to 1333 MHz front-side bus speed or up to two Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors X5470 up to 3.33 GHz and up to 1333 MHz front-side bus
• Up to 32 GB of high-performance, new-generation memory 667 MHz, two PCI-Express slots and up to four HDDs for robust expansion

 

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