Each Drive Enclosure has drives located on the front of the chassis. Drives are customer replaceable units (CRUs). Replacing a drive is a hot-serviceable process.
300GB hard disk drives (HDDs) fully populated with 24 drives
900GB HDDs fully populated with 24 drives
400GB solid state drives (SSDs) in the following configurations:
Six drives and one spare
12 drives and one spare
Six drive upgrade to the current configuration
1.6TB SSDs with the following configurations:
Six drives and one spare
12 drives and one spare
18 drives and one spare
Six drive upgrade to the current configuration
Figure 1: DE2-24P Drive Enclosure drives
The DE2-24C Drive Enclosure can only be configured with 24, 4TB HDDs.
Figure 2: DE2-24C Drive Enclosure drives
The system generates an alert to notify you of a failed drive. The system also notifies you when it detects that a drive might fail soon.