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IBM x3650 M3 Server - can I just use a regular 2.5" SATA drive? Or do they need to be a certain type?
rjohn12
Posted 2018-03-26T10:48:49.970
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IBM x3650 M3 Server - can I just use a regular 2.5" SATA drive?
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As per the fine manual product guide
Storage bay flexibility: Up to 16 hot-swap 2.5" drive bays for SAS or SATA HDDs, or solid-state drives (intermixing supported); or eight 2.5" bays plus an internal tape drive bay.
There's also a list of drives that were available which include sata and SAS on the same page
As such, a sata drive should work in any of the bays of that system
Journeyman Geek
Posted 2018-03-26T10:48:49.970
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Except they dont. Going off the same product data, I purchased 3 1TB ssd's. They dont plug into the drive bay correctly.. Some sort of adapter is needed to go from sas to sata. – Dan – 2019-01-25T21:50:28.113
I believe that this server uses SCSI disks as hot-swappable, but I'm not certain what the internal drives are. If it's using normal SATA ports, you can run a 2.5" disk on them, but I suspect that this is SCSI only. – Alex – 2018-03-26T10:55:32.030
I don't think they are SCSI? They look kind of like SATA connectors. – rjohn12 – 2018-03-26T23:22:22.233
Yup, you're absolutely right. I was looking at the spec for an older x3650 model. – Alex – 2018-03-27T10:27:02.090