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Cisco UCS C220 Server Installation and Service Guide
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Chapter 3 Maintaining the Server
Installing or Replacing Server Components
Replacing Hard Drives or Solid State Drives
This section includes the following information:
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Drive Population Guidelines, page 3-12
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Drive Replacement Procedure, page 3-13
Drive Population Guidelines
The server has two different drive backplane options:
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The Small Form Factor drives version can hold up to eight 2.5-inch hard drives or solid state drives.
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The Large Form Factor drives version can hold up to four 3.5-inch hard drives.
The drive-bay numbering is shown in
Figure 3-6
.
Figure 3-6
Drive Numbering, Small Form Factor
Figure 3-7
Drive Numbering, Large Form Factor
Observe these drive population guidelines for optimum performance:
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When populating drives, add drives to the lowest-numbered bays first.
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Keep an empty drive blanking tray in any unused bays to ensure proper air flow.
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You can mix hard drives and SSDs in the same server (the LFF version of the server does not support
SSDs). However, You cannot configure a logical volume (virtual drive) that contains a mix of hard
drives and SSDs. That is, when you create a logical volume, it must contain all hard drives or all
SSDs.
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