Owners Manual

Drive backplane

The drive backplanes supported in NX3340 is 2.5 inch (x8) SAS and SATA.

NOTE: Mixing of 2.5 inch 10K or 15K SAS drives with 2.5 inch 7.2K SATA on the same backplane is not supported. You can

mix solid state drives with hard drives on the same backplane.

Removing the drive backplane

Prerequisites

CAUTION: To prevent damage to the drives and backplane, remove the drives from the system before removing

the backplane.

CAUTION: Note the number of each drive and temporarily label them before you remove the drive so that you

can replace them in the same location.

NOTE: The procedure to remove the backplane is similar for all backplane configurations.

1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in Safety instructions.

2. Follow the procedures in Before working inside your system.

3. Remove the air shroud.

4. Remove the backplane cover.

5. Remove all drives from the hard-drive slots from the front of the system.

6. Disconnect all the cables from the backplane.

Steps

Press the blue release tabs and lift the backplane to disengage the backplane from the hooks on the system.

NOTE:

If your backplane has an expander board, then loosen the screws on the expander board before you remove the

backplane.

Figure 60. Removing drive backplane

Installing and removing system components