Owners Manual

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

4. If you are not replacing the drive immediately, insert a drive blank in the empty drive slot.

NOTE: Install the drive blanks in the drive carrier before installing the drive carrier into the drive tray.

Figure 28. Removing a drive carrier from the mid drive tray

Next steps

Install a drive carrier into the mid drive tray.

Installing a drive carrier into the mid drive tray

Prerequisites

Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.

CAUTION: Use only drives that have been tested and approved for use with the drive backplane.

CAUTION: When installing a drive, ensure that the adjacent drives are fully installed. Inserting a drive carrier

and attempting to lock its handle next to a partially installed carrier can damage the partially installed carrier's

shield spring and make it unusable.

CAUTION: To prevent data loss, ensure that your operating system supports hot-swap drive installation. See the

documentation supplied with your operating system.

CAUTION: Mixing drive carriers from previous generations of NAS systems is not supported.

CAUTION: When a replacement hot swappable drive is installed and the system is powered on, the drive

automatically begins to rebuild. Ensure that the replacement drive is blank or contains data that you wish to

overwrite. Any data on the replacement drive is immediately lost after the drive is installed.

Steps

1. Lift the carrier handle.

2. If a drive blank is installed in the drive slot, remove it.

3. Insert the drive carrier into the drive tray.

4. Lower the drive carrier handle to engage the drive to the connector on the backplane and lock the drive in place.

Installing and removing system components