Replacing 2.5-Inch Hard Disk Drive - NEC Express5800 Series Maintenance Manual

Chapter 2 Configuring and Upgrading the System

5.3.3 Replacing 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive

Follow the procedure below to remove the failed hard disk drive. The hard disk drive is replaced with new device
with the server powered on.
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Replacing the Hard Disk Drive
1. Locate the failed hard disk drive.
When a hard disk drive fails, the DISK ACCESS LED on the hard disk drive's handle lights amber.
2. Remove the failed hard disk referring to Chapter 2 (2.4 Replacing a hard disk drive) and Chapter 2
(5.3.2 Removing 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive).
3. Refer to the steps in Chapter 2 (5.3.1 Installing 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive) to install a new hard disk
drive.
4. Restore the redundant configuration.
Refer to Chapter 2 (2.4 Replacing a hard disk drive).
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Important Refer to Chapter 2 (5.1.2 Anti-static measures) and Chapter 2 (5.1.4 Preparing
your system for upgrade) before starting installing or removing options.
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You can replace a hard disk drive during continuous operation.
Note
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The hard disk drive to be installed for replaced must have the same specifications as
its mirroring hard disk drive.
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Use unsigned hard disk drive for replacement. To use the signed disk, it is necessary
to recover the duplex configuration by referring to Chapter 2 (2. Disk Operations) after
formatting the disk physically.
As to physical format, refer to Chapter 3 (3. SAS Configuration Utility).
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