Installing A 2.5-Inch Hdd Cage And Hard Disk Drives - NEC Express5800/T110f-SEXP285A User Manual

Chapter 2 Preparations

1.12.3 Installing a 2.5-inch HDD cage and hard disk drives

If a 2.5-inch HDD cage is installed in this server, four to six SAS/SATA Hard Disk Drives or SSDs (solid state
drive) can be installed.
Combining SATA/SAS Hard Disk Drives and SSDs
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Hard Disk Drives (SATA/SAS) and SSDs cannot be combined on BTO servers.
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An optional RAID Controller is required to use SAS Hard Disk Drives together with SSDs.
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An optional RAID Controller is required to install five or more Hard Disk Drives.
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You cannot mix them within the same RAID group (pack).
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You cannot use SAS Hard Disk Drives that have different rotation speeds.
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Mount SATA/SAS Hard Disk Drives in order from slot 0, and mount the SSDs to the remaining slots.
The N8154-59F 2.5-inch HDD cage, which is a required BTO option, can mount a SAS HDD, and the
N8154-56F 2.5-inch extra HDD cage can mount a SATA HDD, and vice versa.
Fourth Hard Disk Drive
Third Hard Disk Drive
Second Hard Disk Drive
First Hard Disk Drive
(When four Hard Disk Drives are installed)
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Important
Use Hard Disk Drives specified by NEC. Installing a third-party Hard Disk
Drive might cause a failure of the server and the Hard Disk Drive. You will be
charged for maintenance for failures and damage caused by these products,
even during the maintenance period.
N8154-59F
2.5-inch HDD cage
Important
Install the hard disk drives sequentially starting from slot 0.
Express5800/T110f-S User's Guide
1. Installing Internal Optional Devices
N8154-56F extra
2.5-inch HDD cage
Sixth Hard Disk Drive
Fifth Hard Disk Drive
Fourth Hard Disk Drive
Third Hard Disk Drive
Second Hard Disk Drive
First Hard Disk Drive
(When six Hard Disk Drives are installed)
N8154-59F
2.5-inch HDD cage