Hard Disk Drive Support; Hot-Swap Hard Disk Drive Trays; Drive Blanks; Figure 19. Hard Drive Tray Assembly - Intel SR1500 - AXXMINIDIMM DDR-2 RAID Controller Cache Memory Manual

Peripheral and Hard Drive Support
5.2

Hard Disk Drive Support

The chassis can support up to three 3.5" x 1" hot-swap SAS or SATA hard disk drives. The
drives are mounted to hot-swap drive trays for easy insertion to or extraction from the drive bay.
Note: All hard drive bays must be populated to maintain system thermals. Drive trays should
either have a hard drive or drive blank installed.
5.2.1

Hot-swap Hard Disk Drive Trays

Each hard drive must be mounted to a hot-swap drive tray, making insertion and extraction of
the drive from the chassis very simple. Each drive tray has its own dual purpose latching
mechanism which is used to both insert and extract drives from the chassis and lock the tray in
place. Each drive tray supports a light pipe providing a drive status indicator, located on the
backplane, to be viewable from the front of the chassis.
A. Hard Drive
B. Drive Carrier
C. Side Rail
D. Mounting Screw
E. Hard Drive Connector
5.2.2

Drive Blanks

Drive blanks must be used when no drive is used in a hard drive bay. Drive blanks simulate the
spatial volume of a hard disk which is required to maintain proper air pressure limits necessary
to cool the system.
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Figure 19. Hard Drive Tray Assembly

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