Front view

When the drive backplane is connected directly to a storage controller, each drive box starts at 1.

Item Description
1 Box 1 (drives 1–4)
2 Box 2 (drives 5–8)
3 Box 3 (drives 9–12)

Front panel LEDs

Item Description
1 Health LED
2 Power On/Standby button and system power LED
3 NIC status LED
4 UID button/LED

Drive identification



4-LFF midplane drive numbering