Replacing Sas/Sata Hard Drives Or Solid State Drives; Sas/Sata Drive Population Guidelines - Cisco SE-CL-L3 Installation Manual

Replacing SAS/SATA Hard Drives or Solid State Drives

6 Mini-storage module socket. Options:
• SD card module with two SD card slots
• M.2 module with slots for either two SATA
M.2 drives or two NVMe M.2 drives
• Cisco Boot-Optimized M.2 RAID Controller
(module with two slots for SATA M.2 drives,
plus an integrated SATA RAID controller that
can control the two M.2 drives in a RAID 1
array)
7 Chassis intrusion switch (optional)
8 Internal USB 3.0 port on motherboard
9 RTC battery, vertical socket
Replacing SAS/SATA Hard Drives or Solid State Drives
Note You do not have to shut down the server or drive to replace SAS/SATA hard drives or SSDs because they
are hot-swappable. To replace an NVMe PCIe SSD drive, which must be shut down before removal, see
Replacing a Front-Loading NVMe SSD, on page

SAS/SATA Drive Population Guidelines

The server is orderable in the following different version
• SE-CL-L3 —Small form-factor (SFF) drives, with 10-drive backplane. Supports up to 10 2.5-inch
Drive bay numbering is shown in the following figures.
Figure 15: Small Form-Factor Drive Versions, Drive Bay Numbering
Figure 16: Large Form-Factor Drive Version, Drive Bay Numbering
Observe these drive population guidelines for optimum performance:
• When populating drives, add drives to the lowest-numbered bays first.
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SAS/SATA drives. Drive bays 1 and 2 support NVMe SSDs.
15 Modular RAID (mRAID) riser, can optionally be a
riser that supports either:
• Hardware RAID controller card
• Interposer card for embedded SATA RAID
16 PCIe cable connectors for front-loading NVMe SSDs
on PCIe riser 2
17 Micro-SD card socket on PCIe riser 1
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Maintaining the Server