Owners Manual

SC7020 Series Storage System Drives

The SC7020 series storage system supports Dell Enterprise Plus drives.

• The SC7020 storage controller supports both spinning hard drives and SSDs.

• The SC7020F storage controller supports SSDs.

The drives in the SC7020 series storage system are installed horizontally. The indicators on the drives provide status and activity

information.

Figure 2. SC7020 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 firmware fault

SC7020 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 first 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.

Storage Manager identifies 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 3. SC7020 Series Storage System Drive Numbering

SC7020 Series Storage System Back-Panel View

The back panel of the storage system contains the storage controller indicators and power supply indicators.

Figure 4. SC7020 Series Storage System Back-Panel View

SC7020 Series Storage System Hardware