Aligning An Ams Or Drive Into A Drawer - Quantum QX Series Setup Manual

Chapter 2: Installing the Chassis
Populate QXS 48-Drive Drawers
3. Face the front of the drawer—and using the handle—pull the drawer outward along the drawer slide.
Figure 63: Opening and closing drawer
4. Pull the drawer outward until it meets the drawer stop.
To close the drawer, simply slide the drawer into the chassis along the drawer slide until it properly
seats in the drawer bay.
Take care to ensure there are no loose cable wires protruding beyond the limits of the igus chainflex
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cable.
After closing the drawer, revolve the handle downwards such that it is flush with the drawer front
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panel—in its stowed position—and re-attach the bezel to the front of the chassis.

Aligning an AMS or Drive Into a drawer

Note: These are important notes when installing drives within a 2U48 chassis.
You must populate the 2U48 chassis in four (4 each) drive increments and populate a vertical slot group
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in the drawer.
Always install drives in the 2U48 chassis in slot 0-3 first (drawer 0).
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Quantum recommends that you distribute additional drives among the three drawers to mitigate potential
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performance bottlenecks.
Populate any empty drive slots with an AMS insert to allow proper cooling of the chassis.
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Once you have opened the drawer, you can access the drive bays.
The chassis uses an SFF sledded drive positioned to lay on its side—with the drive PCBA facing up—for
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insertion into the drive slot within the drawer.
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