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Chapter 3: Maintenance and Component Installation
3.4 Chassis Components
Storage Drives
The SC827BHD chassis supports twelve 3.5" storage drives (HDDs or SSDs). Each node
controls three SAS drives and three drives that can be NVMe or SAS. NVMe are 2.5" drives
The drives are mounted in carriers to simplify their removal from the chassis. These carriers
For M.2 SSD storage, see the next section.
Note: Enterprise level hard disk drives are recommended for use in Supermicro chassis and
servers. For information on recommended HDDs, see the Supermicro website.
Note
Drive Carrier Indicators
Each drive carrier has two LED indicators: an activity indicator and a status indicator. In
Hard Drive Carrier LED Indicators
Color Blinking Pattern Behavior for Device
Activity
LED
Blue Solid On SAS/NVMe drive installed
Blue Blinking I/O activity
Status
LED
Red Solid On Failure of drive with RSTe support
Red Blinking at 1 Hz Rebuild drive with RSTe support
Red Blinking with two blinks
and one stop at 1 Hz
Hot spare for drive with RSTe support
Red
Power on for drive with RSTe support
Red Blinking at 4 Hz Identify drive with RSTe support
Green Solid On Safe to remove NVMe device
Amber Blinking at 1 Hz Attention state—do not remove NVMe device
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