Owners Manual

Hard Drives

The NX440 system supports up to four 3.5 inch, hot swappable SAS, SATA hard drives.

Removing a drive blank

Prerequisites

1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.

2. If installed, remove the front bezel.

CAUTION: To maintain proper system cooling, drive blanks must be installed in all empty drive slots.

CAUTION: Mixing drive blanks from previous generations of storage systems is not supported.

Steps

Press the release button and slide the drive blank out of the drive slot.

Figure 18. Removing a drive blank

Next steps

1. Install a drive or a drive blank.

Installing a drive blank

Prerequisites

Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.

CAUTION: Mixing drive blanks from previous generations of storage systems is not supported.

Steps

Insert the drive blank into the drive slot, and push the blank until the release button clicks into place.

Installing and removing system components