Item
Name
Icon
Description
4
Hard drives
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Can have up to 30 internal 2.5-inch SAS hard drives
SCv3000 and SCv3020 Storage System Drives
The SCv3000 and SCv3020 storage system supports Dell Enterprise Plus Value drives.
The drives in an SCv3000 storage system are installed horizontally. The drives in an SCv3020 storage system are installed vertically. The
indicators on the drives provide status and activity information.
Figure 8. SCv300 and SCv320 Expansion Enclosure Drive Indicators
Item
Control/Feature
Indicator Code
1
Drive activity indicator
•
Blinking green – Drive has I/O activity
•
Steady green – Drive is detected and has no faults
2
Drive status indicator
•
Steady green – Normal operation
•
Blinking green – A command was sent to the drive to make the LED blink so that you can
identify the drive in the rack.
•
Blinking amber – Hardware or firmware fault
SCv3000 and SCv3020 Storage System Drive Numbering
The storage system holds up to 16 or 30 drives, which are numbered from left to right in rows starting from 0 at the top-left drive. Drive
numbers increment from left to right, and then top to bottom such that the first row of drives is numbered from 0 to 4 from left to right,
and the second row of drives is numbered from 5 to 9 from left to right.
Storage Manager identifies drives as
XX
-
YY
, where XX is the number of the unit ID of the storage system and YY is the drive position
inside the storage system.
Figure 9. SCv3000 Storage System Drive Numbering
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About the SCv3000 and SCv3020 Storage System