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

Chapter 2 Preparations

Installing a 2.5-inch HDD cage and hard disk drives

When a 2.5-inch HDD cage is installed in this server, four to six SAS/SATA hard disk drives or SSDs can be
installed.
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.
The N8154-82F 2.5-inch HDD cage can mount a SAS HDD, and the N8154-83F 2.5-inch extra HDD cage
can mount a SATA HDD, and vice versa.
Fourth Hard Disk Drive
Third Hard Disk Drive
Second Hard Disk Drive
First Hard Disk Drive
<The installation of four hard disk drives>
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Important
Use hard disk drives provided by NEC.
Sixth Hard Disk Drive
Fifth Hard Disk Drive
Fourth Hard Disk Drive
N8154-82F
2.5-inch Hot Plug
Drive Cage Kit
Important
Install the hard disk drives sequentially starting from slot 0.
Express5800/T110j-S, T110j-S (2nd-Gen) User's Guide
1. Installing Internal Optional Devices
N8154-83F
2.5-inch Hot Plug
Drive Cage Kit
Third Hard Disk Drive
Second Hard Disk Drive
First Hard Disk Drive
<The installation of six hard disk drives>
N8154-82F
2.5-inch Hot Plug
Drive Cage Kit