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April 21st, 2022 05:00
Regarding hot-plug disks in R740xd
Hello
During configuration in OSC, I chose the following chassis for R740xd:
Chass is : 12x3.5" HDDs on BP, 4x3.5" HDDs on MP and 2x3.5" HDDs Flexbay
My question is; Are the disks in Midplane and FlexBay hotplug?
In OSC, I dont see "hotplug" in their definitions when I choose a disk for MP or Flexbay but I suspect that we can safely remove those disks while the server is operating so I couldn't be sure. There is no information in technical guide or other formal documents regarding this.
Thanks in advance.
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Origin3k
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April 26th, 2022 12:00
Indeed a good question. The manual isnt clear or in my opinion showing a wrong direction when speaking about "When a replacement hot swappable drive is installed and the system is powered on, the drive automatically begins to
rebuild" within the mid-bay. BECAUSE.... in all the years there was a rule of thumb which says.. if something have a orange(red) handle its designed for hot swapping and can be replaced when the server is up and running(see disktrays for front/rear, fans, psu or the new boss-2) and when its "blue" like release handles for pcie cards/riser and so on than the server needs to shutdown. The release handle for the midbay are marked "blue".
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Joerg
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April 21st, 2022 08:00
Yes I need to remove the top cover but afterwards I can plug or unplug the disk in midplane while server is running, right? I don't see anything like "power off the server before doing that" in the guides.
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April 21st, 2022 08:00
Hard drive from rear Flex bay is hot pluggable. The drives in the midplane backplane is inside the server and to remove those drives you need to remove the top cover. You can refer below link for more details on this
https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/poweredge-r740xd/per740xd_ism_pub/removing-drive-carrier-from-the-mid-drive-tray?guid=guid-09de4c3a-d166-4c43-ba3c-53138e8154f1&lang=en-us
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April 26th, 2022 09:00
Any ideas???
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April 27th, 2022 04:00
Thank you very much Joerg for this valuable info..