Installing Blade Components 267Hard Drives• PowerEdge M915 supports two 2.5 inch SAS or SSD hard-disk drives.• PowerEdge M910 supports up to two 2.5 inch SAS, SATA, or solid-statedisk (SSD) hard drives.• PowerEdge M905 and M805 support one or two 2.5 inch SAS hard-diskdrives.• PowerEdge M710 supports one to four 2.5 inch SAS hard drives.• PowerEdge M710HD supports one or two 2.5 inch SAS or SSD hard drives.• PowerEdge M610, M610x, M605, and M600 support one or two 2.5 inchSATA hard drives, one or two 2.5 inch SAS hard drives, or one or two SSDhard drives.NOTE: SAS and SATA hard drives cannot be mixed within a blade.NOTE: Hot-swap operation is supported if an optional RAID controller card isinstalled.NOTE: SATA hard drives are not hot swappable with the SATA repeaterdaughter card.Hard Drive Installation Guidelines• If a RAID controller storage card is installed, the blade supports hot-swappable drive removal and installation.• If less than the maximum number of hard drives are installed, hard-driveblanks must be installed to maintain proper cooling airflow.Installing a Hard DriveNOTE: When a replacement hot-swappable hard drive is installed and the blade ispowered on, the hard drive automatically begins to rebuild. Make absolutely surethat the replacement hard drive is blank or contains data that you wish to haveover-written. Any data on the replacement hard drive is immediately lost after thehard drive is installed.NOTE: Not all operating systems support hot-swappable drive installation. See thedocumentation supplied with your operating system.1 Open the hard-drive carrier handle. See Figure 3-56.
