Replacing Hdds Or Ssds In The Internal Drive Compartment - Cisco UCS S3260 Service Manual

Installing or Replacing System Components

Replacing HDDs or SSDs in the Internal Drive Compartment

This section contains the following topics:
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Internal Drive Population Guidelines
The system has 56 internal drive bays in the main chassis.
numbering. When populating internal drives, follow these guidelines:
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Figure 3-7
HDD01
HDD02
HDD03
HDD04
HDD05
HDD06
HDD07
HDD08
HDD09
HDD10
HDD11
HDD12
HDD13
HDD14
Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server Chassis Installation and Service Guide
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Internal Drive Population Guidelines, page 3-18
Identifying a Faulty Internal Drive, page 3-19
Replacing Internal Drives, page 3-20
Populate HDDs starting from the lowest-numbered bays to the highest. Populate row 1 – 14, then
row 15 – 28, and so on.
Populate internal SSDs starting from the highest-numbered bays to the lowest. Populate bay 56, then
bay 55, and so on.
For example, a system with 36 HDDs and 2 SSDs should have the HDDs in bays 1 – 36 and the SSDs
in bays 56 and 55.
The four colored boxes shown in
distributed to the drive bays.
Internal Drive Bay Numbering
HDD15 HDD29
HDD16 HDD30
HDD17 HDD31
HDD18 HDD32
HDD19 HDD33
HDD20 HDD34
HDD21 HDD35
HDD22 HDD36
HDD23 HDD37
HDD24 HDD38
HDD25 HDD39
HDD26 HDD40
HDD27 HDD41
HDD28 HDD42
Figure 3-7
Figure 3-7 represent the four power groups in which power is
HDD43
HDD44
FAN
1,2
HDD45
HDD46
HDD47
FAN
HDD48
3,4
HDD49
HDD50
HDD51
FAN
5,6
HDD52
HDD53
HDD54
FAN
HDD55
7,8
HDD56
Chapter 3 Maintaining the System
shows the internal drive bay