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Section 4 – Installing SATA Drives in
P3 Tower
The ThinkStation P3 Tower can hold a maximum of four SATA drives. The P3
Tower motherboard has four SATA port connections, labelled SATA1, SATA2,
SATA3, and SATA4 (eSATA) in the order they show up in the system BIOS.
Figure 7 - P3 Tower Motherboard with SATA Callouts
Note: The ability to maximize the number of SATA drives is dependent upon
using a “3rd HDD enclosure” or “Front-Access Storage Enclosure” (FASE),
depending on CPU SKU and fan cooler (See Table 2 & Figures 8 & 9).
SATA port 4 is an eSATA port. This port is capable of hot-swapping SATA
drives after the feature is enabled in BIOS, found under Devices→Storage
Setup→”SATA Drive 4 Hot-Plug Support”→Enable/Disable.
Due to the external accessibility of the FASE, Lenovo recommends only using
the hot-swap feature with the FASE bay. Lenovo strongly recommends against
accessing internal drives/components while the system is operating.
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