Internal storage
The TD350 supports chassis configurations with either 2.5-inch drive bays or 3.5-inch drive bays. Some
configurations also support one optical drive, two optical drives, or one optical and one tape drive.
The six available drive configurations are shown in the following figure. The configurations are:
8x 2.5-inch hot-swap drive bays
16x 2.5-inch hot-swap drive bays
32x 2.5-inch hot-swap drive bays
5x 3.5-inch hot-swap drive bays
15x 3.5-inch hot-swap drive bays
5x 3.5-inch easy-swap drive bays
Figure 5. Available drive bay configurations
Note: A tape drive is supported only with hot-swap drive configurations and only with the addition of the
AnyRAID 720ix controller.
There are four hot-swap backplanes used in TD350 configurations:
8x 2.5-inch hot-swap backplane (for 8-drive configurations only; no bay upgrades)
8x 2.5-inch hot-swap backplane with AnyRAID support (for 8, 16 or 32-drive configurations)
5x 3.5-inch hot-swap backplane (for 5-drive configurations only; no bay upgrades )
15x 3.5-inch hot-swap backplane with AnyRAID support (for 5-drive and 15-drive configurations)
A configuration with 8x 2.5-inch drives with AnyRAID support can be upgraded to 16 drive bays by adding one
additional backplane. A configuration with 16x 2.5-inch drives can be upgraded to 32 drive bays by adding an
upgrade kit. These options are listed in the following table.
Configurations notes:
Only configurations with AnyRAID support can be upgraded using these backplane kits. A configuration
with 8x 2.5-inch drive bays without AnyRAID support cannot be upgraded.
As shown in Table 7, when upgrading from 8x 2.5-inch drives to 16x 2.5-inch drive bays, you will need an
AnyRAID 720ix adapter in addition to the 8-Drive Backplane Kit (4XF0G45886).
The 32-to-16 drive upgrade kit (4XF0G88928) includes the additional AnyRAID 720ix adapter and PCIe
Expander Card needed to support 32 drives. The PCIe Expander Card requires an available PCIe slot.
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