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Drive Enclosure Replacement Procedures
Drive Enclosure Overview
Drive Enclosures are used as back-end storage for the Oracle Flash Storage
System. The Oracle FS System can be configured for as many as 30 Drive
Enclosures. The two types of Drive Enclosure are the DE2-24P Drive Enclosure
and the DE2-24C Drive Enclosure. Both Drive Enclosure types can co-exist in the
same system.
Drive Enclosure are high-availability, serial-attached SCSI (SAS-2) storage
enclosures. The DE2-24P Drive Enclosure has a 2U chassis that supports the
following types of drives:
Twenty four small form factor (SFF), 2.5-inch (6.35-cm) hard disk drives
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(HDDs)
Configurations of seven or 13 performance solid state drives (SSDs)
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Configurations of seven, 13, or 19 capacity SSDs
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The DE2-24C Drive Enclosure has a 4U chassis that supports 24 large form factor
(LFF), 3.5-inch (8.89-cm) HDDs.
The following figures show the front of the DE2-24P Drive Enclosure and the
DE2-24C Drive Enclosure.
Figure 120: DE2-24P Drive Enclosure (front view)
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