About Disk Drives

The Server Module (blade) supports up to two on-board SAS or SATA drives. These hot-pluggable drives can be configured as independent disks, striped disks (RAID 0), or mirrored disks (RAID 1). The disks are considered options because you can also configure a diskless blade.

The drives are located on the front of the blade with their faceplates viewable from the front of the blade. You can access the disk drives without removing or powering down the blade. There are three indicators on each disk drive, located on the faceplate of each drive. For information about the indicators, see About Disk Drive Indicators.

The disk drives are customer-replaceable units (CRUs) that must be properly prepared prior to their removal or insertion. For instructions on replacing a disk drive, see Replace Disk Drive in Powered-On Server Module.

The disk drive specifications are listed below.

Disk Drive Type

Density

Speed

Form Factor

Supported On

SAS drive

73 Gbytes

10,000 rpm

2.5 inch

X8400, X8420, X8440, X8450 Server Modules

SAS drive

146 Gbytes

10,000 rpm

2.5 inch

X8400, X8420, X8440, X8450 Server Modules

SAS drive

73 Gbytes

15,000 rpm

2.5 inch

X8400, X8420, X8440, X8450 Server Modules

SATA drive

80 Gbytes

5,400 rpm

2.5 inch

X8400, X8420, X8440 Server Modules

SATA drive

200 Gbytes

5,000 rpm

2.5 inch

X8400, X8420, X8440, X8450 Server Modules