Installing An Sff Drive - HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus User Manual

The installation is complete.
To configure arrays, see the HPE Smart Array SR Gen10 Configuration Guide at the Hewlett Packard Enterprise
website.

Installing an SFF drive

To install SFF hard drives and SSDs, use the SFF-to-LFF drive converter option.
In general, SFF hard drives require as little as half the power and generate significantly less heat than LFF hard drives.
SSDs have no moving parts. Information is stored in microchips. Traditional hard drives use a mechanical arm with a read/
write head to move around and read information from the right location on a rotating storage platters. This lack of
rotating media in SSDs:
• Greatly reduces the SSD's power consumption
• Enable SSDs to tolerate significantly higher operating shock and vibration levels SSDs are suitable for server
workloads with highly random data under a variety of write-workload applications.
Prerequisites
Before you perform this procedure, make sure that you have the following items available:
• T-10 Torx screwdriver
• T-15 Torx screwdriver
• SFF drive converter option kit. This kit includes:
◦
Drive converter tray
◦ T-10 screws (4)
Procedure
1. Power down the server.
2.
Disconnect the power cord from the AC source.
3. Remove the power adapter cord from the power cord clip, and then disconnect the power adapter from the server.
4. Disconnect all peripheral cables from the server.
5.
If installed, unlock and remove the security padlock and/or the Kensington security lock.
For more information, see the lock documentation.
6. If the server is in a vertical orientation, position the server in a horizontal orientation.
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