Use Of Internal Hard Disk Drives In The Raid System; Connecting Cables - NEC Express5800 Series User Manual

Chapter 2 Preparations
1.14

Use of Internal Hard Disk Drives in the RAID System

This section describes how to use the internal hard disk drives in the RAID system.

1.14.1 Connecting cables

See the figures below for how to connect cables.
Using optional RAID controller (1 to 8 hard disk drives)
Optional RAID Controller
Important
If you use hard disk drives in the RAID system or change the RAID level,
hard disk drives are initialized. If the hard disk drive contains valuable data,
be sure to backup the hard disk drive before installing the RAID controller
and configuring the RAID system.
Tips
• Logical drives can be created even with only one physical device.
• When using SAS hard disk drive, SAS SSD, or SATA SSD, it must be
connected to RAID controller.
SATA0-3
SATA4-7
Backplane
Ports 0-3
Ports 4-7
Express5800/R120f-1E User's Guide
Hard Disk Drive
SATA 0-3
SATA 4-7
1. Installing Internal Options
Ports 4-7
Ports 0-3
SLOT 0
SLOT 1
SLOT 2
SLOT 3
SLOT 4
SLOT 5
SLOT 6
SLOT 7
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