HPE ProLiant DL385 - Drive Options

Drive options
Drive guidelines
Depending on the configuration, the server supports SAS, SATA, and NVMe drives.
Observe the following general guidelines:
• The system automatically sets all drive numbers.
• If only one hard drive is used, install it in the bay with the lowest drive number.
For drive numbering, see Drive bay numbering.
• The NVMe SSD is a PCIe bus device. Devices attached to a PCIe bus cannot be removed without allowing the device
and bus to complete and cease the signal/traic flow.
Do not remove an NVMe SSD from the drive bay while the Do Not Remove button LED is flashing. The Do Not Remove
button LED flashes to indicate that the device is still in use. Removal of the NVMe SSD before the device has
completed and ceased signal/traic flow can cause loss of data.
• Drives with the same capacity provide the greatest storage space eiciency when grouped into the same drive array.
Supported drive carriers
Depending on the drive cage, the server supports the following drive carriers:
• SFF Smart Carrier (SC)
• SFF Smart Carrier NVMe (SCN)
• SFF Smart Carrier M.2 (SCM)
• LFF Smart Carrier (SC)
• LFF to SFF Smart Carrier Converter
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