Supermicro SC816LTS-655BP, User Manual

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Chapter 6: Advanced Chassis Setup
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6-4 Drive Bay Installation/Removal
The SC816LT chassis contains twelve 3.5" and two 2.5" internal fixed hard drives.
Each hard drive and its position in the chassis are labeled with a number that cor-
responds to the SATA port on the motherboard.
Warning! Enterprise level hard disk drives are recommended for use in Supermicro
chassis and servers. For information on recommended HDDs, visit the Supermicro Web
site at http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/files/storage/SAS-1-CompList-110909.
pdf
Figure 6-5. Hard Drive Positions and their Corresponding SATA Ports
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Replacing Hard Drives
Replacing a 3.5" Hard Drive
1. Power down the chassis with the operating system, remove the cord from the
rear of the power supply as described in Section 5-3 and remove the front
and rear covers as described in Section 5-4.
2. Locate the latch on the HDD you wish to remove from the chassis.
3. Press down on the latch to release the HDD from the floor of the chassis.
4. Slide the HDD forward to release it from the mounting bracket that secures it
to the floor of the chassis.