Technical Product Specification

Peripheral and Hard Drive Subsystem Intel® Server System SR2625UR TPS
Intel order number E46130-010 Revision 1.8
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Figure 29. Slimline Optical Drive Assembly for 2.5-inch drive System
The SATA Optical drive plugs directly into the backplane using industry standard 13-pin SATA
connector. This SATA channel is routed from USB to SATA converter, located on the
backplane. The optical drive is seen as a USB device in the system.
6.2 Hard Drive Bays
The system supports up to eight hot-swap 2.5-inch SAS or SATA hard disk drives. Hard drives
are mounted to hot-swap drive trays for easy insertion to or extraction from the drive bay. Two
additional fixed mount 2.5-inch drives are supported with an optional drive cage.
6.2.1 Hot-swap Drive Carriers
Each hard drive must be mounted to a hot-swap drive carrier, making insertion and extraction of
the drive from the system very simple. Each drive carrier has its own dual-purpose latching
mechanism, which is used to both insert/extract drives from the system and lock the carrier in
place. Each drive tray supports a light pipe that provides a drive status indicator. The light pipe
is located on the backplane and can be viewed from the front of the system.