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Chapter 3: Maintenance and Component Installation
3.6 Storage Drives
The CSE-827BQ chassis supports 12 hot-swap 3.5" storage drives (HDDs or SSDs). Each
node controls three drives.
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HNTR: 12 hybrid SATA3/NVMe drives
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HNC8R: 12 hybrid SAS3/SATA3/NVMe drives (SAS3 supported via Broadcom 3808)
Drive Carriers
Each drive carrier has two LED indicators: an activity indicator and a status indicator. For RAID
configurations using a controller, the meaning of the status indicator is described in the table
below. For OS RAID or non-RAID configurations, some LED indications are not supported,
such as hot spare. For VROC configurations, refer to the VROC appendix in this manual.
Drive Carrier LED Indicator
Color
Blinking Pattern
Behavior for Device
Activity LED
Blue
Solid On
SAS/NVMe drive installed
Blue
Blinking
I/O activity
Status LED
Red
Solid On
Failure of drive with RSTe support
Red
Blinking at 1 Hz
Rebuild drive with RSTe support
Red
Blinking with two blinks and one
stop at 1 Hz
Hot spare for drive with RSTe support
(not supported in VMD mode)
Red
On for five seconds, then off
Power on for drive with RSTe support
Red
Blinking at 4 Hz
Identify drive with RSTe support
Green
Solid On
Safe to remove NVMe device (not
supported in VMD mode)
Amber
Blinking at 1 Hz
Attention state---do not remove NVMe
device (not supported in VMD mode)
Note:
Enterprise level hard disk drives are recommended for use in Supermicro chassis and
servers. For information on recommended HDDs, see the Supermicro website,
supermicro.com/products/nfo/files/storage/SBB-HDDCompList.pdf