Storage Bays - NEC Express5800 320La User Manual

For true dual modular redundancy, all the disk drives must be mirrored in the system, as
shown below.
All the disk drives must be added in pairs and only similar disks can mirror each other.
Figure 1-10.
Table 1-9 summarizes the features of storage bays and hard disk drives.
Table 1-9. Features of the Storage Bays and Hard Disk Drives
Feature
Disk drives
Disk drive speeds
and storage
capacity
Disk drive carrier

Storage bays

1-16 System Overview
Mirrored Drives
Drive
1
2
3
G ro u p 1
Figure 1-10. Mirrored Hard Disk Drives
Description
Hot pluggable and redundant.
Disk drive spindle speeds of 10,000 RPM. Storage capacities of 18, or 36 GB.
Each disk drive is mounted in a disk drive carrier containing a handle, latching
mechanism, and two status indicators. The status indicators are listed along
with a description of each in Table 1-2.
The storage bays can contain any combination of disk drive carriers and
dummy disk drive carriers as long as equivalent drives are mirrored.
DO NOT remove dummy disk drive carriers from unused slots. They are
present to direct airflow around the devices.
Drive
4
5
6
G ro u p 2