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Chapter 3: Maintenance and Component Installation
3.6 Storage Drives
The system supports up to four fixed 2.5" SATA storage drives that are installed to a
drive cage and then inserted into the chassis. For compatible storage drives, see the
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.
Hard Drives
Your server may or may not have come with fixed internal hard drives installed. Up to four
2.5" hard drives are supported by the chassis.
Installing Drives
The system supports two SATA3 drives by default. The motherboard should be installed
before installing the drives.
1. Remove the system power as described in section 2.1 and remove the chassis cover.