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What is the RAID controller in the server?<br />
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We have been running X25-M series Intel SSDs in server applications since the second generation SSDs arrived.<br />
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As long as the hot swap backplane, RAID controller, and the server board are configured to work with SATA drives you should have no issues.<br />
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Note that even with the X25-M series we managed to saturate the RAID controller and the bus quite easily due to their high performance capabilities.<br />
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SSD just kills for IOPs.<br />
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Philip
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And one other small factor: The drive caddy needs to support 2.5&quot; drives.<br />
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Philip
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The X25-M series write cache does NOT support a power outage !<br />
I don't know about the X25-E...but you should check.
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To date _no_ hard drive cache supports power outage.<br />
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The cache to be concerned about is the cache on the RAID controller. Battery Backup is preferable for both data security but also a significant increase in performance for RAID 5 etc with parity bits.<br />
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Philip
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I plan to turn the server into a storage using SAS HDDs, and I will not use hardware RAID, the RAID will be created by the operating system. I need to know if the Intel SSD fit well in the IBM's 2.5 hotswap bays.<br />
And I don't know if the IBMs HD backplane can support SAS and SATA.<br />

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The Intel SSD uses a standard SATA layout for the power and SATA connectors.<br />
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If the caddy, backplane, and server board support SATA then you are good to go.<br />
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<a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/hardware/rack/x3650m3/index.html" rel="ugc">http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/hardware/rack/x3650m3/index.html</a><br />
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Disk bays (total/hot swap) Up to sixteen 2.5&quot; hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs <br />

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The X25-M G3 is announced with a &quot;Power safe write cache&quot;...<br />
<a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/3965/intels-3rd-generation-x25m-ssd-specs-revealed" rel="ugc">http://www.anandtech.com/show/3965/intels-3rd-generation-x25m-ssd-specs-revealed</a><br />
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I thought that OCZ SandForce based Vertex was already handling a power safe write cache (large capacitors are visible onboard)...but I was not able to quickly find a &quot;support link&quot;
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That article is well out of date.<br />
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Intel SSD 320 Series PDF:<br />
<a href="http://download.intel.com/design/flash/nand/325212.pdf" rel="ugc">http://download.intel.com/design/flash/nand/325212.pdf</a><br />
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That is the X25-M replacement.<br />
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Intel SSD 510 Series is their current performance line using a Marvell controller:<br />
<a href="http://download.intel.com/design/flash/nand/Intel_SSD_510_Series_Product_Brief.pdf" rel="ugc">http://download.intel.com/design/flash/nand/Intel_SSD_510_Series_Product_Brief.pdf</a><br />
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The successor to the X25-E is not out officially that I know of.<br />
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This article is a lot more recent and a little more accurate:<br />
<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/28/intel-ssd-720-710-and-520-series-leak-out-larsen-creek-and-pai/" rel="ugc">http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/28/intel-ssd-720-710-and-520-series-leak-out-larsen-creek-and-pai/</a><br />
There is a good roadmap of Intel SSDs at this link.<br />
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Philip
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Reading the Intel 320 series specs, you should see<br />
<i>To reduce potential data loss, the Intel SSD 320 Series detects and protects from an unexpected system power loss. <b>The drive saves all cached data in the process of being written before shutting down</b>, thereby minimizing potential data loss. </i><br />
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So, you HAVE some SSD usable with their write cache enabled...
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Team, tks for the comments about the use of SSDs for Cache, but what I need to know is if this SDDs can fit (size and connectors) on this sistem SATA/SAS HDDs bays.
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The SAS backplane connector was designed to accept either a SAS drive or a SATA drive.<br />
<a href="http://www.serialstoragewire.org/images/articles/it24fig1.jpg" rel="ugc">http://www.serialstoragewire.org/images/articles/it24fig1.jpg</a><br />
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The 2,5&quot; SAS tray should allow your X25-E (with a power sensitive write cache) to be installed normally
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The x3650 M3 can use the ServeRAID-M5014 where the battery is an option to 256MB cache.
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Sorry to jump in, but I have the exact same question.<br />
So, ipworkers, did you actually try and use this ssd on the server ? <br />
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I'm also not too worried about the compatibility, but more on the physical bay &quot;converter&quot;?<br />
It seems that ibm wont allow us to plugin ordinary hdd, so I'm not sure about this hdd<br />
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Thank you. And sorry aain.
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Hi team,<br />
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can I install two Intel X25-E SSD on a IBM x3650 M3 Server?<br />
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Regards<br />
ED
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Hi team,

can I install two Intel X25-E SSD on a IBM x3650 M3 Server?

Regards
ED

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