Device maintenance and repair
7.4 Removing and installing hardware
SIMATIC IPC547E
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Status displays of the hard disk drives in a RAID5 system
A defective hard disk drive in the RAID5 system is displayed by the status displays at the
front of the device.
The following table includes information on the alarms of the status displays. If the hard disk
drive is defective and the SIMATIC monitoring software is installed, the LEDs of the status
display light up individually or simultaneously.
SATA connection of
the motherboard
Replacing a defective hard disk drive in the RAID system
1. Determine which hard disk drive has been reported as defective by the RAID software
(HDD on port 0, 1, 2 or 3).
2. Remove the defective hard disk drive (internal drive or drive in removable drive bay).
3. Replace the defective hard disk drive with a drive of the same type and capacity.
Information about the recovery of the RAID system can be found in the section "Integrating
the new hard disk drive in the RAID system".