Drive bay numbering

CAUTION:

When a server is purchased without any drive installed, some drive bays might be empty while other drive bays might be populated with drive blanks.

To maintain proper system cooling, do not operate the server without a drive or a drive blank installed.

Drive bay numbering depends on how the drive backplane is connected. In this server, the backplane can be connected to the:
  • Embedded Smart Array controller through the onboard SATA ports

  • Smart Array type-p SR Gen10 controllers

  • SAS expander card

When the backplane is connected to a storage controller, the drive bay numbering for each drive box starts at 1.

When the backplane is connected to a SAS expander, all drive boxes are treated as a single box 1. This means the drive bay numbering is continuous.

  • LFF drive bay numbering: Smart Array controller


    Four-bay LFF non- hot-plug drive model numbering
  • LFF drive numbering: Smart Array controller


    Four-bay LFF hot-plug drive model numbering
  • SFF drive bay numbering: Smart Array controller


    Eight-bay SFF hot-plug drive model numbering
  • SFF drive numbering : SAS expander


    SFF drive numbering: SAS expander