topic Re: Can Hard Drives be hot-swapped in M-series appliances? in General Topics

Can Hard Drives be hot-swapped in M-series appliances?

James_Higgins — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 19:31:37 GMT

I see some unclear documentation so I'd like to get full clarification on this. I see some how-to guides saying to power down an M-100 to replace a failed drive. However, adding drives to an M-series appliance makes no reference to this. The hardware guide also has an odd note about powering down for any maintenance, yet doesn't include that as a step between removing a drive from the RAID array on CLI and requesting to add the new one back. These are all on hot-swap bay slots and I've popped them out on a pre-prod system without any issue, but a teammate is telling me he always shuts it down prior to replacement. Oddly, the data sheet specifies that the power supplies are hot-swappable but does not say the same about the HDDs.

Re: Can Hard Drives be hot-swapped in M-series appliances?

JoeAndreini — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 11:08:46 GMT

Purely anecdotal, but I have hot-swapped drives on M-100's dozens of times and never had a problem.

Re: Can Hard Drives be hot-swapped in M-series appliances?

BPry — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:15:27 GMT

@James_Higgins,

I'm not sure what the official recommendation is but I've always simply hot-swapped the drives whenever we've needed too.