138 Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
TX150 S8 / TX200 S7
Hard disk drives / solid state drives
7.1 Basic information
– Solid state drives (SSDs) are always equipped before installing hard disk
drives.
– Mixed configurations with Eco SATA drives and SAS drives are not allowed.
– 2.5-inch SAS drives and 2.5-inch BC SATA drives can be mixed, but not
used in one logical RAID volume.
– Hot replace is only possible with running RAID.
– Please refer to section "2.5-inch HDD / SSD configurations" on page 138
and section "3.5-inch HDD configurations" on page 152 for a complete
overview of the mounting sequences.
– Install dummy modules into unused HDD / SSD bays.
7.2 2.5-inch HDD / SSD configurations
7.2.1 8x 2.5-inch HDD / SSD configuration
7.2.1.1 Mounting order
Figure 62: Mounting order with up to 8 2.5-inch HDDs (2 SAS backplanes)