Installing a drive blank, Removing a hot-swap hard drive – Dell PowerEdge R410 User Manual

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Installing a Drive Blank

Align the hard-drive blank with the drive bay and insert the blank into the
drive bay until the release lever clicks into place. See Figure 3-4.

Removing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive

CAUTION:

Ensure that your operating system supports hot-swap drive

installation. See the documentation supplied with the operating system.

1 Remove the front bezel. See "Removing and Replacing the Optional

Front Bezel" on page 81.

2 Using the RAID management software, prepare the drive for removal.

Wait until the hard-drive indicators on the drive carrier signal that the
drive can be removed safely. See your storage controller documentation
for information about hot-swap drive removal.

If the drive has been online, the green activity/fault indicator will flash as
the drive is powered down. When the drive indicators are off, the drive is
ready for removal.

3 Press the release button and open the drive carrier release handle to

release the drive. See Figure 3-5.

4 Slide the hard drive out of the drive bay.
5 Insert a drive blank in the vacated drive bay. See "Installing a Drive Blank"

on page 85.

CAUTION:

To maintain proper system cooling, all empty hard-drive bays must

have drive blanks installed.

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