Servicing Drives
The server provides six 2.5-inch drive bays, accessible through the front panel. See “Front
Panel Components (Service)” on page 13. Drives can be removed and installed while the server
is running. This feature, referred to as being hot-serviceable, depends on how the drives are
configured.
The server supports traditional, disk-based storage devices, Flash SSDs, which are diskless
storage devices based on solid-state memory, and SFF-8639 NVMe PCIe SSDs, which are
diskless storage devices based on solid-state memory using the NVMe software interface.
NVMe drives are supported in the top four drive slots, while other drives are supported in any
slot. Any of these drives can be a boot device.
Note - The terms “drive” and “HDD” are used in a generic sense to refer to internal storage
devices.
These topics explain how to service drives.
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“Drive LEDs” on page 64
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“Determine Which Drive Is Faulty” on page 65
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“Remove a Drive” on page 65
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“Remove a Drive Filler” on page 69
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“Install a Drive” on page 70
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“Install a Drive Filler” on page 72
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“Verify a Drive” on page 73
Related Information
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“Component Service Categories” on page 48
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“Front Panel Components (Service)” on page 13
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