Figure 6-4. Removing a Hard Drive Carrier
Figure 6-5. Mounting a Hard Drive in a Carrier
Regardless of how many hard drives are installed, all drive carriers must
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remain in the drive bays to promote proper airfl ow.
Enterprise level hard disk drives are recommended for use in Supermicro
chassis and servers. For information on recommended HDDs, visit the
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Supermicro Web site at http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/storage.
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Important! Use extreme caution when working around the SAS/SATA back-
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plane. Do not touch the backplane with any metal objects and make sure
no ribbon cables touch the backplane or obstruct the airfl ow holes.
Chapter 6: Advanced Chassis Setup
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