Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller S100 User Manual page 25

Table 3-1. Features of the PERC S100 controller and PERC S300 controller
RAID Controller Feature Description
Physical disk
hot-swapping
(hot-swap capability)
• In a brief warning at the Dell Inc. PERC S100 Controller
BIOS or Dell Inc. PERC S300 Controller BIOS screen,
that a virtual disk(s) were found that are Degraded and/or
Failed. This alerts the user to the failed physical disk(s).
• At Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Storage
Management.
• With a bi-color Status LED on each physical disk. The green
element of the Status LED is off, while the amber element
flashes on and off.
NOTE:
The Status LED applies only to systems with a PERC S300
adapter and a backplane that has removable physical disks.
NOTE:
PERC S100 adapters support HDD physical disks of
capacity 2 TB and greater. Current and upcoming releases of
PERC S300 adapters will only support upto 2 TB HDD physical
disks .
Hot-swap (hot-plug) capability is the manual substitution of
a physical disk for another one while the host system is
powered on.
If a system supports hot-swapping, physical disks can be
plugged into a system's backplane while the controller is
operating, without causing the controller to reset.
CAUTION:
A physical disk can be hot-swapped from a system
only if the system has a PERC S300 adapter and a backplane
that supports hot-swapping.
NOTE:
If a system's physical disks are accessible only when the
system's cover is removed, the physical disks cannot be hot-
swapped. The physical disks must be located on the backplane
(behind the removable front panel) and accessible externally.
NOTE:
When replacing physical disks in a virtual disk that has
already been created, make sure that SAS HDD physical disks
are replaced with SAS HDD physical disks, that SATA HDD
physical disks are replaced with SATA HDD physical disks, and
that SATA SSD physical disks are replaced with SATA SSD
physical disks.
NOTE:
When hot-swapping a physical disk, make sure that the
new disk is of equal or greater capacity to the physical disk that
is being replaced.
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