Technical Product Specification

Hard Disk Drive Support Intel® Server System SR1690WB TPS
Revision 1.7
Intel order number: E72797-009
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6. Hard Disk Drive Support
The server system provides four hard drive bays at the front of the chassis. You can
populate all hard drive bays with a carrier-mounted 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch SATA or SAS hard
disk drives.
6.1 Hard Disk Drive Bays
The server system 1U chassis can support up to four carrier-mounted SATA or SAS 3.5-inch
or 2.5-inch hard disk drives. The drives may be “electrically” hot-swapped while the system
power is applied, but you must take caution before hot-swapping while the system is
functioning under operating system/application control or data may be lost.
Note: All drive bays (0 through 3) are controlled by the server board or the RAID
controller card.
Figure 18. HDD Bays and Numbering
If a failed drive needs replacing, it is recommended you replace it with the same
manufacturer, model, and capacity.
6.2 Hard Drive Trays
You can use hard drive trays for 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch hot-swap hard drive configurations.
Hot-swap drive trays make insertion and extraction of the drive from the system very simple.
Each drive tray has its own latching mechanism, which is used to both insert and extract
drives from the chassis and lock the tray in place. Each drive tray supports two light pipes to
direct light from the drive status LEDs on the backplane to the tray’s face allowing it to be
viewable from the front of the system.
Figure 19. 3.5-inch HDD Assembly Overview