Servicing Drives
The server provides several configurations of available drives, depending on the drive
backplane and supporting PCIe cards in that model.
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Eight 2.5-inch drives in the front. Four can be NVMe drives.
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SAS card in internal PCIe slot 7. NVMe drives supported by the
motherboard interface.
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Twelve 3.5-inch SAS drives in the front. Two 2.5-inch SAS drives in
the rear.
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Backplane expander card.
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Twenty-four 2.5-inch drives in the front. Four can be NVMe drives. Two
2.5-inch SAS drives in the rear.
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Backplane expander card. NVMe drives supported by the motherboard
interface.
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Twelve 2.5-inch NVMe drives in the front.
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Motherboard interface, and three NVMe switch cards in PCIe slots
x,x,x.
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Drives can be removed and installed while the server is
running. This feature, referred to as being hot-serviceable, depends on
how the drives are configured.
Note -
The server supports traditional, disk-based storage devices and Flash SSDs, which are
diskless storage devices based on solid-state memory. The server also can support NVMe
drives. Either type of drive can be a boot device. The term
“drive” is used in a generic sense to refer to all three types of internal
storage devices.
These topics explain how to service drives.