Inch Hard Disk Drive - NEC Express5800 Series Maintenance Manual

Chapter 2 Configuring and Upgrading the System
5.3

2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive

The 2.5-inch hard disk drive bays in front of the server can mount up to 8 hard disk drives with the 2.5 inch width
exclusive trays for one CPU/IO module.
The operation is executed on the created mirror volume with installed hard disk drive pairs such as slot 0 on
CPU/IO module 0/1, slot 1 on CPU/IO module 0/1, slot 2 on CPU/IO module 0/1. (The OS is installed on the
mirror volumes that consist of the hard disks in the slot 0.)
CPU/IO module 0
CPU/IO module 1
Empty slots in the 2.5-inch hard disk drive bay contain dummy trays. The dummy trays are inserted to improve
the cooling effect in the server. Always insert the dummy trays in the slots with no hard disks drive installed.
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Do not use any hard disks that are not authorized by NEC. Installing a third-party
Important
hard disk may cause a failure of the server as well as the hard disk.
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Purchase hard disks of the same model in pair. Contact your sales agent for hard
disk drives optimum for your server.
Slot 0 Slot 2 Slot 4
Slot 1
Slots to execute the mirroring process
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5. Installing and Replacing Optional Devices
Dummy tray
Slot 6
Slot 3 Slot 5 Slot 7
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