Installing or Replacing Hard Disk Drives

You can install up to six hot-swappable SAS or SATA hard disk drives on the controller. The drives go into carriers that connect to the SAS/SATA backplane board once the carriers with drives attached are inserted back into the drive bays. The controller ships with six drive carriers.

CAUTION If you install fewer than six hard disk drives, the unused drive bays must contain the empty carriers that ship with the server to maintain proper cooling.