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Chapter 3: Maintenance and Component Installation
3.3 Chassis Components
Storage Drives
The SCLA25 chassis supports eight hot-swap 3.5" and two rear 2.5" SATA3 storage drives
(HDDs or SSDs) in drive carriers to simplify their removal from the chassis. These carriers
also help promote proper airflow.
For VROC configurations, refer to the VROC appendix in this manual.
Note:
Enterprise level hard disk drives are recommended for use in Supermicro chassis and
servers. For information on recommended HDDs, visit the Supermicro website at
supermicro.com/products/nfo/files/storage/SBB-HDDCompList.pdf
The server also supports PCIe M.2 storage that can be installed directly on the motherboard.
See Section 3.3.
Drive Carrier Indicators
Each drive carrier has two LED indicators: an activity indicator and a status indicator. For
RAID configurations using a controller, the meaning of the status indicator is described in
the table below. For OS RAID or non-RAID configurations, some LED indications are not
supported, such as hot spare.
Drive Carrier LED Indicators
Color
Blinking Pattern
Behavior for Device
Activity
LED
Blue
Solid On
SAS drive installed
Blue
Blinking
I/O activity
Status
LED
Red
Solid On
Failure of drive with RSTe support
Red
Blinking at 1 Hz
Rebuild drive with RSTe support
Red
Blinking with two blinks
and one stop at 1 Hz
Hot spare for drive with RSTe support
(not supported in VMD mode)
Red
On for five seconds,
then off
Power on for drive with RSTe support
Red
Blinking at 4 Hz
Identify drive with RSTe support