Installing Drives - Lenovo System x3250 M5 Installation And Service Manual

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Figure 36. Eight 2.5-inch hot-swap hard disk drives with ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller cable connection

(hardware RAID card inserted on the left side)

Make sure the relevant cables pass through the cable clips.

Step 10. Reinstall the PCI riser-card assembly if applicable (see "Replacing the PCI riser-card assembly" on

If you have other devices to install, do so now. Otherwise, go to "Completing the installation" on page 78.

Installing drives

This section describes the rules to install drives.

The following notes describe the type of hard disk drives that the server supports and other information

that you must consider when you install a hard disk drive. For a list of supported hard disk drives, see

http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven/.

• Locate the documentation that comes with the drive and follow those instructions in addition to the

instructions in this chapter.

• Make sure that you have all the cables and other equipment that are specified in the documentation that

comes with the drive.

Installing optional devices