Installing Disk Drives; Drive Slot Numbering; Installing Your Disk Drives - Promise Technology VessJBOD 1000 Series Product Manual

Installing Disk Drives

The VessRAID subsystems and VessJBOD expansion units support:
• SAS and SATA hard disk drives
• 3.5-inch hard disk drives
For a list of supported physical drives, download the latest compatibility list from
the PROMISE

Drive Slot Numbering

You can install any suitable disk drive into any slot in the enclosure. The diagram
below shows how VessJBOD's drive slots are numbered. Whether you have the
original or plus carriers, the slots are numbered the same.
Slot numbering is reflected in the WebPAM PROe and CLU user interfaces. See
Figures 8 and 9.
Figure 3. 16-bay VessJBOD drive slot numbering
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Figure 4. 12-bay VessJBOD drive slot numbering
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Install all of the drive carriers into the VessJBOD enclosure to ensure proper
airflow, even if you do not populate all the carriers with disk drives.

Installing Your Disk Drives

1. Remove a disk drive carrier.
2. Carefully lay the disk drive into the drive carrier at the front, so that the screw
holes on the sides line up.
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