Chapter 2 Preparations
1.8
Hard Disk Drive
The server has device bay for hard disk drive located at the front of the server.
A hard disk drive mounted in a dedicated tray can be purchased. Install the hard disk drive on the server with it
mounted on the tray. Install a hard disk in the following order.
Single RAID card configuration: Port 0 → 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 → 5 → 6 → 7
Two RAID cards configuration:Port 0 → 4 → 1 → 5 → 2 → 6 → 3 → 7
Note the following precautions to install hard disk drives.
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Hard disk drives having different capacities, interface types, or rotational speeds cannot be installed
together.
Bays can contain up to 8 hard disk drives.
Port numbers have been assigned to each slot.
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Important
Use hard disk drives specified by NEC. Installing a third-party hard disk drive might
cause a failure of the server as well as the hard disk drive.
Port 0
Port 1
Port 3
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Port 2
Port 4
Port 5
Port 6
Port 7