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Hot-Swapping a SCSI Hard Drive
Hot-Swapping Bays
Two
The power supply fans provide cooling for the hot swap drives. A system with two power supplies is capable of cooling most drives that would be installed into the system. However, drives that dissipate a large amount of power might require three power supplies to ensure proper cooling. See the product specifications to determine if the particular drive to be installed needs the additional cooling provided by a third power supply.
Carriers for
You can easily set up RAID† applications if you install a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) controller board on the PHP I/O carrier, RAID software, and SCSI hard disk drives in the
SCSI SCA Hard Disk Drives
The server supports a variety of
Mounting a SCSI SCA Hard Disk Drive in a Carrier
See Figure 16 and Figure 17 (page 85).
1.Remove the
2.Record the model and serial numbers of the drive in your equipment log.
3.Orient the drive carrier so that the handle is toward your left and the metal EMI/ESD fingers are toward your right.
4.Orient the drive so that:
∙The drive’s label faces away from the carrier heatsink, toward the carrier fingers
∙The drive’s connector faces away from the carrier handle
CAUTION
Be careful not to bend or damage the carrier’s metal fingers as you attach the drive to the carrier.
5.Position the drive in the end of the carrier away from the handle, then slide the drive toward the handle.
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