Basic Procedure; Inch Hard Disk Drives; Mounting Order For 3.5-Inch Hdds - Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 S7 Upgrade And Maintenance Manual

Hard disk drives / solid state drives
7.1

Basic procedure

– Solid state drives (SSDs) are always equipped before installing hard disk
drives.
– Hard disk drives / solid state drives with different capacities are installed
from highest to lowest capacity.
– Hard disk drives with different rotation speeds are installed from highest to
lowest speed.
– When installing hard disk drives with different bus technologies (SAS or
SATA), first install SAS drives and then SATA drives.
– Please refer to sections
page 146 and
complete overview of the mounting sequence.
– Install dummy modules into unused HDD / SSD bays.
7.2

3.5-inch hard disk drives

7.2.1

Mounting order for 3.5-inch HDDs

Maximum configuration: 6x 3.5-inch HDDs
Figure 41: 3.5-inch HDD mounting order
HDD naming scheme
I
The HDD numbering as listed in the ServerView RAID Manager differs
from the HDD mounting order:
138
"Mounting order for 2.5-inch HDDs / SSDs" on
"Mounting order for 3.5-inch HDDs" on page 138
Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
for a
RX300 S7