v The server supports three standard and three optional 1-inch (26 mm) slim-high,
v The hot-swap bays connect to a hot-swap drive backplane. The backplane is a
Hard disk drive component locations
The following illustration shows the hot-swap-drive backplane component locations,
as viewed from the front of the server.
Note: The illustrations in this document might differ slightly from your hardware.
Note: The hard-disk drive activity light and hard-disk drive status light on the
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3.5-inch, hot-swap hard disk drives in the hot-swap bays. The standard hot-swap
bays are bays 1 through 3 (from bottom to top). The optional hot-swap bays are
bays 4 through 6 (from bottom to top). Bays 1 through 3 are located in the
standard hard disk drive cage, to the left of bays 4 through 6 in the optional hard
disk drive cage.
Note: The server does not support half-high hot-swap drives or internal tape
drives.
printed circuit board behind the bays.
backplane match the hard-disk drive activity light and hard-disk drive status
light on the front of the server (see "Start the server" on page 8).
Hard disk
drive activity
light (green)
Hard disk
drive status
light (amber)
SCSI hot-swap
hard disk drive
connector