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Chapter 3: Maintenance and Component Installation
3.7 Storage Drives
The system supports four hot-swap 3.5" drive bays. Two M.2 SATA3 slots are also provided
on the motherboard. For compatible storage drives, see the
The drives are mounted in toolless drive carriers that simplify their removal from the chassis.
These carriers also help promote proper airflow.
Note:
Enterprise level hard disk drives are recommended for use in Supermicro chassis and
servers. For information on recommended HDDs, visit the Supermicro website product pages
at
https://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/Ultra.cfm
Installing Drives
Removing a Hot-Swap Drive Carrier from the Chassis
1. Press the release button on the drive carrier, which will extend the drive carrier handle.
2. Use the drive carrier handle to pull the drive out of the chassis.
Figure 3-3. Logical Drive Numbers
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2
3
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Checking the Temperature of an NVMe Drive
There are two ways to check using IPMI.
Checking a Drive
•
IPMI > Server Health > NVMe SSD –
Shows the temperatures of all NVMe drives.
•
IPMI > Server Health > Sensor Reading > NVME_SSD –
Shows the single highest tem-
perature among all the NVMe drives.