Cisco Systems UCS C210 manual Installing Hard Drives and Solid State Drives

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Installing Hard Drives and Solid State Drives

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The qualified and supported part numbers for this component are subject to change over time. For the most up-to-date list of replaceable components, see the following URL and then scroll to Technical Specifications:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/products_data_sheets_list.html

You do not have to shut down or power off the server to replace hard drives or SSDs because they are hot pluggable.

You can mix hard drives and solid state drives (SSDs) in the same server. However, You cannot configure a logical volume (virtual drive) that contains a mix of hard drives and SSDs. That is, when you create a logical volume, it must contain all hard drives or all SSDs.

If you need to make changes to your RAID configuration after installing a hard drive, use the LSI configuration utility for your mass storage device. See RAID Controller Considerations, page C-1for more information.

The onboard PCIe extender supports connection to a RAID card for up to eight hard drives. An optional PCIe expander is required for configurations that have more than eight hard drives installed. The LSI RAID cables that are required for cards added after-factory differ based on which configuration that you use. See the “Supported RAID Controllers and Required Cables” section on page C-1.

The SAS expander cannot be used with the onboard ICH10R controller. You must use a RAID controller card with the SAS expander.

Cisco recommends following the industry-standard practice of using drives of the same capacity when configuring RAID volumes. If you use drives of different capacities, the usable portion of the smallest drive will be used on all drives of the RAID volume.

The 500 GB SATA drives (A03-D500GC3) and the 1 TB SATA drives (A03-D1TBSATA) that are sold with the UCS C210 M2 server are supported at 3G speeds. These are 6G drives and might possibly run faster than 3G in this server, but they are supported to run at minimum 3G speeds.

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