Technical Product Specification

Cooling Sub-System Intel® Server System SR1690WB TPS
Revision 1.7
Intel order number: E72797-009
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The following provides a description for Air Duct module assembling process.
Figure 15. Air Duct Module assembly process
4.5 Drive Bay Population Requirement
In order to maintain system thermal requirements, you must fully populate all hard drive bays.
Hard drive trays used for hot-swap drives must either have a hard drive installed or not have
a hard drive installed.
IMPORTANT: If the drive bay is missing or not fully populated, the system will not meet the
thermal cooling requirements of the processor, which will most likely result in degraded
performance as a result of throttling or thermal shutdown of the system. It is recommended
to apply the air block on the blank HDD carrier if the installed HDD quantity is less than
four pieces.
Figure 16. Hot-swap HDD Tray with SAS/SATA HDD Installed