System Storage and Peripheral Drive Bays Overview Intel® Storage Server System JBOD 2000 Family Hardware Guide
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Table 8. Activity LED Status
Green
Condition
Drive Type
Behavior
Power on with no drive
activity
SAS
LED stays on.
SATA
LED stays off.
Power on with drive
activity
SAS
LED blinks off when processing a command.
SATA
LED blinks on when processing a command.
Power on and drive
spun down
SAS
LED stays off.
SATA
LED stays off.
Power on and drive
spinning up
SAS
LED blinks.
SATA
LED stays off.
3.2.1
3.5”
Drive Hot-Swap Backplane Overview
Systems with 12-drive configurations have their own unique backplane. The backplanes mount
to the back of the drive bay assembly.
Figure 19. 3.5” Hot-Swap Backplane and Drive Bay Assembly
On the front side of each backplane are mounted 12 hard disk drive interface connectors, each
providing both power and I/O signals to the attached hard disk drives.
Figure 20. SFF-8482 Connector on 3.5” HSBP