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HDDs and SSDs
Drive numbering
The server provides drive number (drive slot number) marks on both the front and rear panels to help
identify drives, as shown in
. For information about relations between
physical drive numbers and drive numbers in software (HDM or the BIOS), see "Appendix C Drive
Slot Number Mapping Relationships."
Figure 13 Drive numbering at the front
Figure 14 Drive numbering at the rear
Drive LEDs
The server supports SAS, SATA, and NVMe drives, of which SAS and SATA drives support hot
swapping and NVMe drives support hot insertion and managed hot removal. You can use the LEDs
on a drive to identify its status after it is connected to a storage controller.
For more information about OSs that support hot insertion and managed hot removal of NVMe drives,
visit the OS compatibility query tool at
http://www.h3c.com/cn/Service/Document_Software/Document_Center/Server/
shows the location of the LEDs on a drive.