Intel MB440LX manual Peripheral Drive Bays, Inch User Accessible Diskette Drive Bay

Peripheral Drive Bays

3.5-inch User Accessible Diskette Drive Bay

The 3.5-inch diskette drive in the vertical 3.5-inch peripheral bay supports 720 KB and 1.44 MB media.

5.25-inch User Accessible Drive Bays

Three 5.25-inch half-height bays provide space for removable media devices such as tape drives and CD-ROM drives. You can convert any two adjacent 5.25-inch bays to a single full-height bay. We recommend that you do not use these bays for hard disk drives because they generate EMI, and ESD susceptibility increases.

3.5-inch Hot-docking Drive Bays

Using industry standard 80-pin SCA connectors, the hot-docking backplane in the upper bay supports up to five industry standard SCA hard disk drives. The hot-docking bays accept peripherals that consume up to 11 watts of power and run at a maximum ambient temperature of 55 °C.

You can install an additional hot-docking backplane in the lower hot-docking bay for five more drives. However, if you do, you must install an additional power supply in the chassis to support drives in the lower bay. The upper and lower hot-docking bays, when fully configured with 10 4 GB hard disk drives, provide over 40 GB of hard disk drive space.

The plastic front door on the front of the server covers a removable metal door. Two spring-loaded captive screws secure the metal door to the chassis. These doors provide proper air-flow and easy access to the drives in the upper and lower hot-docking bays. Plastic drive carriers for 3.5-inch wide by 1-inch high drives allow easy hot swapping of these drives without shutting down the server.

With the RPX board installed on the system board, RAID software, and SCSI hard disk drives in the hot-docking bays, you can easily set up RAID applications.

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