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Chapter 3: Maintenance and Component Installation
3.7 Storage Drives
The system supports 24 hot-swap 2.5" NVMe/SAS3/SATA3 drive bays. Four optional rear
2.5” SAS/SATA drive bays and two M.2 SATA3 slots are also supported. 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
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.
Installing Drives
The front of the system has 24 hard drive bays that support NVMe, SAS3 and SATA3 hard
drives.
Figure 3-3. Logical Drive Numbers
1 2 3 4 5
23
10
14
17
20
12
11
15
18
21
13
16
19
22
0
7 8 9
6
Checking the Temperature of an NVMe Drive
There are two ways to check using BMC.
Checking a Drive
•
BMC > Server Health > NVMe SSD –
Shows the temperatures of all NVMe drives.
•
BMC > Server Health > Sensor Reading > NVME_SSD –
Shows the single highest
temperature among all the NVMe drives.