Technical Product Specification

Storage and Peripheral Drive Bays Intel® Server System P4000IP and Intel® Workstation System P4000CR Family TPS
Revision 1.2 Intel order number G38159-002
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4. Storage and Peripheral Drive Bays
The Intel
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Server System P4000IP and the Intel
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Workstation System P4000CR product family
has support for many storage device options, including:
 Hot Swap 2.5'' Hard Disk Drives
 Hot Swap 3.5'' Hard Disk Drives
 SAS Expender Option
 SATA Optical Drive
 eUSB Solid State Device (eUSB SSD)
Support for different storage and peripheral device options will vary depending on the system
SKU. This section will provide an overview of each available option.
4.1 2.5’‘ Hard Disk Drive Support
The Intel
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Server System P4000IP support 8x2.5'' drive configuration. The drive bay can
support either SATA or SAS hard disk drives. Mixing of drive types within the hard drive bay is
not supported. Hard disk drive type is dependent on the type of host bus controller used, SATA
only or SAS. Each 2.5'' hard disk drive is mounted to a drive tray, allowing for hot swap
extraction and insertion. Drive trays have a latching mechanism that is used to extract and
insert drives from the chassis, and lock the tray in place.
Figure 34. 2.5'' Hard Disk Drive Cage
Light pipes integrated into the drive tray assembly direct light emitted from Amber drive status
and Green activity LEDs located next to each drive connector on the backplane, to the drive
tray faceplate, making them visible from the front of the system.