Owners Manual

Technical specications
The technical specications of the MD1280 are displayed in the following tables.
Table 8. Technical specications
Specications
Drives
SAS hard drives Up to 84 SAS hot-swappable hard drives (6.0 Gbps or 12.0 Gbps) and SSDs
Enclosure Management Modules (EMM)
EMMs Two hot-swappable I/O EMM modules
Connectivity
Congurations Various server-attached congurations as specied by your solution
provider.
Backpanel Connectors
SAS connectors
Asymmetric SAS Cabling for connection to the host and for expansion
to an additional enclosure
Support Mini-SAS to Mini-SAS cable universally keyed for the following
lengths that are currently supported: 0.5m–6m
NOTE: SAS connectors are SFF-8086/SFF-8088-compliant.
LED Indicators
Front panel
One two-digit LCD indicator for Unit ID, error code, and unit location
identier
One two-color LED indicator for power status
One single-color LED indicator for module fault status (enclosure as a
whole)
One single-color LED indicator for logical fault status (hard drive, HBA,
RAID controller)
One single-color LED indicator for drive drawer 1 fault status
One single-color LED indicator for drive drawer 2 fault status
Disk Drive In Carrier (DDIC) One single-color LED for hard drive fault status
6 Gbps SAS I/O module 14 one-color LED status indicators, four each for the three SAS ports, and
two for the module status
Fan module
One single-color LED indicator for module status
One single-color LED indicator for battery fault status (not currently
used)
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