Adding Media Packs
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Adding Media Packs
Within the limits proscribed by your system configuration, you can add Media Packs to an existing,
running system.
As a best practice, add Media Packs with the same capacity drives as the other Media Packs in your
system. However, if you want to increase the total capacity of a Storage Group, you can add larger
Media Packs and remove the smaller Media Packs. After you remove the last smaller-capacity Media
Pack, the Storage Group expands to use the extra space. See the
Avid NEXIS Administration Guide
for more information.
If your system contains spare drives and you plan to add more drives of a different capacity, Avid
recommends temporarily removing the spare drives before installing the new Media Pack drives.
This prevents the system from assembling a Media Pack from mixed drive sizes, resulting in a Media
Pack capacity based on the smallest of its drives.
Adding a Media Pack to an Engine (2U and 4U)
The Avid NEXIS | PRO, Avid NEXIS | E2, and Avid NEXIS | E2 SSD contain one Media Pack,
installed at the factory. The Avid NEXIS | E4 Engine can contain up to two Media Packs of 10 drives
each, and two optional spares. Two drive slots are reserved for the system drives. If your Avid
NEXIS | E4 contains only one Media Pack, you can add another, inserting the drives in any order, in
any available slots. The system combines any 10 unassigned drives into a Media Pack automatically.
To add a Media Pack to an Engine:
1. Remove the bezel; see
“Removing the Bezel” on page 51
.
2. For each drive, do the following:
a. Remove the blank drive plate.
b. Fully open the drive latch.
c. Insert the media drive into the slot with the latch facing left.
d. Push the media drive in and push the latch inward until the drive locks in place.
e. Lock the media drive.
3. Reattach the bezel.
Adding a Media Pack to an Engine (5U)
Avid NEXIS | E5 and Avid NEXIS | E5 NL Engines have 84 drive slots, and can contain up to eight
Media Packs of 10 drives each, and two spares. Two drive slots are preinstalled with the system
drives. You can insert new Media Pack drives into any available slots; see
Drives (5U Chassis)” on page 32
for recommendations on how to populate the drive drawers. The
system combines any 10 unassigned drives into a Media Pack automatically.
To add a Media Pack to an Engine:
1. Open the appropriate drawer.
2. For each drive in the Media Pack, and each (optional) spare:
a. Remove the blank drive plate.
b. Lower the drive into the slot with the drive capacity label facing towards you.