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Chapter 3: Maintenance and Component Installation
Installing Hard Drives
The SC136 supports two sleds with 16 hot-swappable NVMe (Non-Volatile
Memory Express) drives each. These drives can be removed without powering
down the system. Only Supermicro qualified NVMe drives are recommended.
To install the NVMe drives, the sleds will need to be extended from the chassis. For drive
bay numbering identification see Figure 3-6 on the the next page.
Each sled has two
levers. Pull these
levers outward to
unlock the sled.
Top View
Pull
Pull
Sled #1
Sled #2
1
Figure 3-5. Removing the Sleds
Once the levers are unlocked,
the sleds can now be pulled out
from the chassis to expose the
NVMe SSD drive bays..
Sled #1
Sled #2
2
Notes:
1. Do not leave a sled extended from the chassis for longer than two minutes. 2. Use
Supermicro qualified NVMe SSDs only. For information on recommended SSDs, visit the
Supermicro website at