Inserting A Disk Drive; To Insert A Disk - Sun Microsystems Blade 6000 Installation Manual

TABLE 3-1
Capacity (GB)
146
300
300
The following rules apply when mixing drives in the disk blade:
You can mix SAS disk drives with different specifications in a disk blade.
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You can have up to eight SSD drives in the disk blade (for HBA requirements
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when using SSDs, see the Sun Blade 6000 Disk Module Administration Guide,
820-4922).
Note – Currently, the X4620A Sun Blade RAID 5 Expansion Module (Intel/Adaptec)
does not support SSDs. Check the Sun Blade 6000 Disk Module Product Notes
(820-1709) for the latest information.
Do not mix SSD and mechanical drives in a single RAID volume.
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Do not mix SATA and SAS drives in a single RAID volume
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Hot spares assigned to a volume must be of the same type as disks in the RAID
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volume (SAS or SATA; mechanical or SSD)

Inserting a Disk Drive

Caution – Before handling components, insert an antistatic wrist strap into the
antistatic grounding receptacle on the front of the chassis. The system's disk drives
contain components that are extremely sensitive to static electricity.

▼ To Insert a Disk

1. Remove the filler bracket from the disk drive slot (see
14 Sun Blade 6000 Disk Module Installation Guide • June 2009
Supported Disk Drives (Continued)
Part Number (With
Speed (RPM) Bracket)
10K 540-7868-xx
10K 540-7868-xx
10K 540-7869-xx
Manufacturer Type
Seagate mechanical
Seagate mechanical
Hitachi mechanical
FIGURE 3-1
SAS/SATA
SAS
SAS
SAS
).