Chapter 6: Advanced Chassis Setup
6-3
6-1 Static-Sensitive Devices
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage electronic com ponents. To prevent
damage to any printed circuit boards (PCBs), it is important to handle them very
carefully. The following measures are generally suffi cient to protect your equipment
from ESD damage.
Precautions
• Use a grounded wrist strap designed to prevent static discharge.
• Touch a grounded metal object before removing any board from its antistatic
bag.
• Handle a board by its edges only; do not touch its components, peripheral
chips, memory modules or gold contacts.
• When handling chips or modules, avoid touching their pins.
• Put the serverboard, extension cards and peripherals back into their antistatic
bags when not in use.
• For grounding purposes, make sure your computer chassis provides excellent
conductivity between the power supply, the case, the mounting fasteners and
the serverboard.
Unpacking
The serverboard is shipped in antistatic packaging to avoid static damage. When
unpacking the board, make sure the person handling it is static protected.
6-2 Hard Disk Drives
The SC213 chassis features sixteen 2.5" drive bays accessible from the front of
the chassis. The drives are mounted in drive carriers to simplify their installation
and removal. These carriers also help promote proper airfl ow for the drive bays.
The hard disk drive are sold separately. Enterprise level hard disk drives are
recommended for use in Supermicro chassis and servers. For information on
recommended HDDs, visit the Supermicro website at http://www.supermicro.com/
products/nfo/fi les/storage/SAS-CompList.pdf
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