Owners Manual
Item Name Icon Description
• Blinking green then o – Power supply mismatch
5 Power socket (2) — Accepts the following standard computer power cords:
• IEC320-C13 for deployments worldwide
• IEC60320-C19 for deployments in Japan
SC5020 Series Storage System Drives
The SC5020 series storage system supports Dell Enterprise Plus drives.
• The SC5020 storage controller supports both spinning hard drives and SSDs.
• The SC5020F storage controller supports SSDs.
The drives in the SC5020 series storage system are installed horizontally. The indicators on the drives provide status and activity
information.
Figure 3. SC5020 Series Storage System Drive Indicators
Item
Control/Feature Indicator Code
1 Drive activity indicator
• Blinking green – Drive has I/O activity
• Steady green – Drive is detected and has no faults
2 Drive status indicator
• Steady green – Normal operation
• Blinking green – A command was sent to the drive to make the LED blink so that you can
identify the drive in the rack.
• Blinking amber – Hardware or rmware fault
SC5020 Series Storage System Drive Numbering
The storage system holds up to 30 drives, which are numbered from left to right in rows starting from 0 at the top-left drive. Drive
numbers increment from left to right, and then top to bottom such that the rst row of drives is numbered from 0 to 4 from left to right,
and the second row of drives is numbered from 5 to 9 from left to right.
Dell Storage Manager identies drives as XX-YY, where XX is the number of the unit ID of the storage system and YY is the drive position
inside the storage system.
Figure 4. SC5020 Series Storage System Drive Numbering
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SC5020 Series Storage System Hardware