Replacing Sas/Sata Hard Drives Or Solid State Drives; Sas/Sata Drive Population Guidelines - Cisco UCS C220 M5 Maintaining

Maintaining the Server
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
The Technical Specifications Sheets for all versions of this server, which include supported component part
numbers, are at

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 three different versions, each with a different front panel/drive-backplane
configuration.
• Cisco UCS C220 M5 (UCSC-220-M5SX)—Small form-factor (SFF) drives, with 10-drive backplane.
• Cisco UCS C220 M5 (UCSC-220-M5SN)—SFF drives, with 10-drive backplane. Supports up to 10
• Cisco UCS C220 M5 (UCSC-220-M5L)—Large form-factor (LFF) drives, with four-drive backplane.
Drive bay numbering is shown in the following figures.
Cisco UCS Servers Technical Specifications Sheets
Supports up to 10 2.5-inch SAS/SATA drives. Drive bays 1 and 2 support NVMe SSDs.
2.5-inch NVMe-only SSDs.
Supports up to four 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives. Drive bays 1 and 2 support NVMe SSDs. A size-converter
drive sled is required to hold 2.5-inch SSDs.
Replacing SAS/SATA Hard Drives or Solid State Drives
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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(scroll down to Technical Specifications).
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