NStor Technologies Disk Array Enclosure User Manual download pdf (Page 29)

Installation

Component Installation

CAUTION: Disk drives and printed circuit board components are sensitive to

electrostatic discharge. To prevent operating failure or damage,

observe the following: Establish a ground for yourself by using the

wrist grounding strap, or by touching the metal chassis prior to

handling or installing the drives or printed circuit board components.

1 Down your server or power off your computer system in preparation for

installing the host adapter (if applicable).

2 Install the adapter into your host computer. For speciﬁc instructions, refer to

your host system’s manual and the host adapter’s user guide.

CAUTION: Exercise care when handling any hard disk drive. Do not drop, jar, or

bump the disk drives.

3 Install the disk drives. Remove one of the disk drives from its anti-static

protective packaging.

4 Holding the drive by its edges, locate the Drive Latching Clips and pull out on

the latches to unlock them.

The Drive Latching Clips are placed in the locked position for shipping

purposes.

5 Insert the disk drive into the drive bay by aligning its rails into the drive bay

slots, component side toward the right on rack-mount systems or component

side down on tower-based systems.

Dual-Bus module - The drive slots are split into two buses: one bus

connects the left or upper four drive slots and the other

bus connects the right or lower four drive slots.

Depending on to which bus the drives will be conﬁgured,

begin populating the drives starting with the far right

slot or lowest slot for that bus.

Single-Bus module -

The Single-Bus module connects all eight drive slots to

one bus. B

egin populating the drive with the far right or

lowest drive slot and work to your left or up.

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