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Chapter 3: Maintenance and Component Installation
3.4 Chassis Components
This section provides instructions on installing and replacing system components. To assure
Storage Drives
The 6029U-T Series supports twelve 3.5" hot-swap storage drives, SATA3 by default, with an
option for eight SAS3 and four NVMe/SAS3 drives. The drives are mounted in drive carriers
Note: Enterprise level hard disk drives are recommended for use in Supermicro chassis and
servers. For information on recommended HDDs, visit the Supermicro website at https://www.
Figure 3-4. Optional NVMe/SAS Drive Bays
Drive Carrier Indicators
Each drive carrier has two LED indicators: an activity indicator and a status indicator. In
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
(not supported in VMD mode)
Red
then off
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
(not supported in VMD mode)
Amber Blinking at 1 Hz Attention state—do not remove NVMe device
(not supported in VMD mode)
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