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Power Edge 720 HDD
We have a PowerEdge R720 server (Service Tag DXXXXX1) being used for our EMR system. Yesterday we started getting a predicted failure on one of the physical disks (Span 0 Physical Disk 0:1:1). We ordered the new Dell drive (Part Number w347k is what I was told by triage to order) to replace this drive. According to the System Management it states "HOT SWAP ... NO". Does this mean the drive is not hot swappable??? I am confused because all the drives on all of our Dell PowerEdge Servers should be hot swappable, as we cannot shut these serves down.
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January 12th, 2017 14:00
Hello.
R720 severs come with backplanes and as such support hot swap drives. Confirm whether there is a backplane. It is highly unlikely that you have cabled hard drives. Can you provide a screen shot from OMSA.