Installing The 2.5-Inch Hdd Cage And Hard Disk Drives - NEC Express5800 Series User Manual

Chapter 2 Preparations
1.11.7

Installing the 2.5-inch HDD cage and hard disk drives

By installing a 2.5-inch HDD cage, up to eight 2.5-inch SAS/SATA hard disk drives or solid state drives (SSD)
can be mounted.
Combining SATA/SAS hard disk drives and SSDs
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An optional RAID controller is required to use SAS hard disk drives together with SSDs.
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An optional RAID controller is required to install five or more hard disk drives.
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You cannot mix them within the same RAID array.
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You cannot use SAS hard disk drives that have different rotation speeds within the same RAID array.
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Mount SATA/SAS hard disk drives in order from slot 0, and mount the SSDs to the remaining slots.
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Use hard disk drives provided by NEC.
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Install the hard disk drives sequentially starting from slot 0.
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