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SPARC S7-2 Server Service Manual

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Updated: March 2017
 
 

Servicing Drives

The server provides eight 2.5-inch drive bays, accessible through the front panel. See Front Panel Components. 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.

The server supports traditional, disk-based storage devices, Flash SSDs, which are diskless storage devices based on solid-state memory, and SFF-8639 NVMe PCIe SSDs, which are diskless storage devices based on solid-state memory using the NVMe software interface. NVMe drives are supported in four drive slots, while other drives are supported in any slot. Any of these drives can be a boot device.


Note -  The terms “drive” and “HDD” are used in a generic sense to refer to internal storage devices.

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