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IBM announced support for Intel’s new Xeon 5500 processors at the same time as Dell and HP, but it’s taken noticeably longer to deliver them to market.

Build quality is up to IBM’s usual high standard, and it has upped the storage stakes. The x3550 has room at the front for six 2.5in SFF SAS or SATA hard disk in hot-swap carriers, putting it on par with the A-Listed PowerEdge R610, but it’s beaten by HP’s new DL360 G6, which has room for eight SFF drives.

IBM offers a good range of RAID options and you can start without a controller and upgrade to the ServeRAID-BR10i PCI Express card, which delivers support for stripes and mirrors. Next up is the ServeRAID-MR10i in the review system, which brings in support for RAID5 and dual-redundant RAID6 arrays, plus an optional battery backup pack.

Check out this review of IBM’s new System x3550, it’s always great to see what people are writing about in this space and what they think about the products. It’s great to see IBM’s new server based on the newer Intel processors, I’m off to read up more.

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