Installation; Drive Orientation; Cooling - Seagate Nytro 5350S NVMe SSD Product Manual

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11. Installation

Nytro 5350S NVMe SSD installation is a plug-and-play process. There are no jumpers on the drive.
NVMe drives are designed to be used in a host system that provides an PCIe-compatible backplane with bays
designed to accommodate the drive. In such systems, the host system typically provides a carrier or tray into which
the drive must be mounted. Mount the drive to the carrier or tray provided by the host system using four M3 x 0.5
metric screws. When tightening the screws, use a maximum torque of 4.5 in-lb +/- 0.45 in-lb. Do not over-tighten or
force the screws. The drive can be mounted in any orientation.
NOTE
Slide the carrier or tray into the appropriate bay in the host system using the instructions provided by the host system.
This connects the drive directly to the system's SFF8639-compatible connector. The connector is normally located on a
PCIe-compatible backpanel. See
Power is supplied through the SFF-8639 connector
The drive is shipped from the factory low-level formatted in 512-byte logical blocks and a single namespace using all
logical blocks. Reformatting the drive is only required if the application requires a different logical block size..
Figure 5 Physical interface
11.1

Drive orientation

The drive may be mounted in any orientation. All drive performance characterizations, however, have been done with
the drive in horizontal (level) and vertical (drive on its side) orientations, which are the two preferred mounting
orientations.
11.2

Cooling

Cabinet cooling must be designed by the customer so that the temperature of the drive will not exceed temperature
conditions specified in
The rack, cabinet, or drawer environment for the drive must provide heat removal from the assembly. The system
designer should confirm that adequate heat removal is provided using the temperature measurement guidelines
described in
Seagate Nytro 5350S NVMe SSD Product Manual, Rev A
NVMe drives are designed to be attached to the host system without I/O or
power cables. If the intent is to use the drive in a non-backplane host system,
connecting the drive using high-quality cables is acceptable as long as the I/O
cable length does not exceed 1 meter (3.2 feet).
Section 12.4 Signal characteristics
Section 9.3.1 Temperature.
Section 9.3.1 Temperature.
for additional information about these connectors.
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