Dell PowerEdge R210 - Manual (Page 22)

2. Open the system. See Opening the System .
3. If present, remove the optical drive mounted above the hard drive 1 (HDD1) bracket. See Removing an Optical Drive .
4. Install the hard drive into the bracket. See Installing a Hard Drive Into a Hard-Drive Bracket .
5. Align the four slots under the hard drive bracket with the four tabs on the chassis and slide the hard drive bracket toward the chassis wall till it snaps
into place. See
Figure 3 -6 .
If you replaced HDD1, reinstall the optional optical drive above the HDD1 bracket. See Installing an Optical Drive .
6. Connect the power and data cables to the hard drive:
l If connecting to the integrated SATA controller (SATA hard drives only), connect the SATA data cable to the SATA connector on the system board.
See Figure 6 -1 .
l If connecting to a SAS RAID controller card (SAS or SATA hard drives), connect the data cable to the connector on the card edge. For information
on installing a SAS controller card, see
Installing an Expansion Card .
7. Close the system. See Closing the System .
8. Reconnect the system to the electrical outlet and turn on the system and attached peripherals.
9. Enter the System Setup program and ensure that the hard drive's controller is enabled. See Entering the System Setup Program .
10. Exit the System Setup program and reboot the system.
See the documentation that came with the hard drive for instructions on installing any software required for drive operation.
Removing a Hard Drive From a Hard-Drive Bracket
1. Remove the four screws from the slide rails on the hard-drive bracket.
If you are removing a 2.5-inch hard drive, separate the 2.5-inch hard-drive bracket from the 3.5-inch hard-drive bracket.
2. Separate the hard drive from the bracket. See Figure 3 -6 .
Figure 3-6. Removing a Hard Drive From a Hard-Drive Bracket
*Screws are supplied along with the hard drives ordered from Dell.
NOTE: A 2.5-inch hard drive is encased in a 2.5-inch hard-drive bracket which is further encased in a 3.5-inch hard-drive bracket.
1 hard-drive bracket 2 hard drive
3 screws (4)*