Can someone confirm the drive placement for SSD and the SATA drives in our Dell XC740xd servers? On one cluster of servers, there are four SSD drives in bays 0-3 and in the other two clusters the SSDs are in the last four bays. I have only seen the SSD drives in the first four drive bays.
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6 March 2020
Hello
If we’re talking about SSD drives I would expect them to be in the first slots, but reviewing Dells documentation I do see that NVMe drives would show up in the last 4. Are you seeing NVMe drives in the last 4 slots?
At that doc link I’m specifically looking at “Table 20. Supported hard drive options for the XC740xd Series Hyper-converged Appliances” in the third layout option.
Thanks for taking a look Jeremy. We don’t have any NVMe drives, so we aren’t using those slots. I didn’t have time to test installing the servers with the SSD drives in 16-19, so I moved them to slot 0-3 and HDD drives into 16-19. The installs eventually worked (thanks to the 10G NIC issue with Foundation). I’m going to stick with moving the SSDs into the first drive slots from now on.
Thank you.
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