HP DX7500 - Manual (Page 30)

Installing Additional Drives
When installing additional drives, follow these guidelines:
● The primary Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive must be connected to the dark blue primary SATA
connector on the system board labeled SATA0.
● Connect the first SATA optical drive to the white SATA connector on the system board labeled
SATA1.
● Connect a second SATA optical drive to the black SATA5 connector.
● Connect a second SATA hard drive to the red SATA4 connector.
● Connect a diskette drive to the connector labeled FLOPPY.
● Connect a media card reader to the USB connector labeled F_USB2.
● The system does not support Parallel ATA (PATA) optical drives or PATA hard drives.
● You may install either a third-height or a half-height drive into a half-height bay.
● If needed, HP has provided extra drive retainer screws on the interior of the front bezel that are
used to secure the drives in the drive cage. Hard drives use 6-32 standard screws. All other drives
use M3 metric screws. The HP-supplied M3 metric guide screws (1) are black. The HP-supplied
6-32 standard screws (2) are silver.
Figure 2-16 Extra Drive Retainer Screws Location
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