Chapter 5: Chassis Setup and Maintenance

5-3 Installing and Removing Hard Drives

The SC827 chassis contains four individual motherboards in separate node draw- ers. Each motherboard node controls a set of three hard drives. Note that if a motherboard node drawer is pulled out of the chassis, the hard drives associated with that node will power down as well.

Motherboard Drawer Locations in the Chassis

Motherboard B

Motherboard D

Controls HDDs B1, B2 and B3

Controls HDDs D1, D2 and D3

Motherboard A

Motherboard C

Controls HDDs A1, A2 and A3

Controls HDDs C1, C2 and C3

MB:

MB:

A

B

 

 

 

 

MB: MB: C

 

 

D

A

 

 

1

 

 

1B

 

 

1C

 

 

1D

 

 

Figure 5-2: Hard Drives and the Corresponding Motherboards

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SUPER MICRO Computer sc827 user manual Installing and Removing Hard Drives, Motherboard Drawer Locations in the Chassis