11 Oct
2011
11 Oct
'11
3:06 p.m.
John R Pierce wrote:
On 10/11/11 12:11 AM, Arun Khan wrote:
In rack mount chassis, do the cages that house the hard disks have the following feature?
(a) Indicate disk failure. LED lights up and/or audio alarm?
that requires specific configuration to suit whatever drive interconnect you have.
Sometimes, it's just looking at what drive is showing SMART (or other) errors. Other times, look at the light.
(b) The failed HDD can be swapped.
If they are in hotswap bays, yes. if they aren't, no.
Don't waste time and money getting anything *other* than hot swap bays. You really, really don't want to have to pull the server out, and take it apart just to swap a bad drive.
they have 2U servers with as many as 25 2.5" SAS bays now.
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