Specifications

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2-14 Compaq ProLiant 5500 and 5500R Maintenance and Service Guide
For use with Pentium II and Pentium III Xeon processor-based servers only
Media Storage
Compaq ProLiant 5500 and 5500R Servers can house up to 14 media devices, including:
A preinstalled 3.5-inch 1.44-MB diskette drive
Two half-height drive bays (removable media area)
Preinstalled 24X or greater IDE CD-ROM drive
Hot-Plug SCSI Drive Cage: 10 Ultra2 drives
!"Simplex Mode: seven 1-inch drives or six 1.6-inch drives
!"Duplex Mode: eight 1-inch drives or six 1.6-inch drives (optional)
NOTE: Compaq ProLiant 5500 and 5500R Servers ship as tower or rack models. Figure 2-9 shows both
ProLiant models, and together with Table 2-1, shows the drive bay locations.
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Figure 2-9. Server drive bay locations, rack, tower
NOTE: Wide Ultra drive cage is shown on rack view.