Dell S100, S300 manual Disks, That supports hot-swapping

Table 3-1. Features of the PERC S100 controller and PERC S300 controller (continued)

RAID Controller Feature Description

• In a brief warning at the Dell Inc. PERC S100 Controller

BIOS or Dell Inc. PERC S300 Controller BIOS screen, that a virtual disk(s) were found that are Degraded and/or Failed. This alerts the user to the failed physical disk(s).

• At Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Storage Management.

• With a bi-color Status LED on each physical disk. The green element of the Status LED is off, while the amber element flashes on and off.

	NOTE: The Status LED applies only to systems with a PERC S300
	adapter and a backplane that has removable physical disks.
	NOTE: PERC S100 adapters support HDD physical disks of
	capacity 2 TB and greater. Current and upcoming releases of
	PERC S300 adapters will only support upto 2 TB HDD physical
	disks .
Physical disk	Hot-swap (hot-plug) capability is the manual substitution of
hot-swapping	a physical disk for another one while the host system is
(hot-swap capability)	powered on.
	If a system supports hot-swapping, physical disks can be
	plugged into a system’s backplane while the controller is
	operating, without causing the controller to reset.
	CAUTION: A physical disk can be hot-swapped from a system
	only if the system has a PERC S300 adapter and a backplane
	that supports hot-swapping.
	NOTE: If a system’s physical disks are accessible only when the
	system’s cover is removed, the physical disks cannot be hot-
	swapped. The physical disks must be located on the backplane
	(behind the removable front panel) and accessible externally.
	NOTE: When replacing physical disks in a virtual disk that has
	already been created, make sure that SAS HDD physical disks
	are replaced with SAS HDD physical disks, that SATA HDD
	physical disks are replaced with SATA HDD physical disks, and
	that SATA SSD physical disks are replaced with SATA SSD
	physical disks.
	NOTE: When hot-swapping a physical disk, make sure that the
	new disk is of equal or greater capacity to the physical disk that
	is being replaced.

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