Installation Manual

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Installing the Hard Drive Array
After securely mounting the Hard Drive Array in the rack, install the hard drives. Place the hard drives into the bays in the correct order.
When replacing a drive in a RAID array, you should rebuild the array before operating. If another drive fails before the array is rebuilt,
the array will go offline and data loss will occur.
WARNING: The hard drive parts and assemblies are susceptible to damage by Electrostatic Discharge (ESD).
Figure 1: Hard Drive Bay Allocation
Figure 2: Hard Drive Bays with Optical DVD Drive
1. Unlock and open the bezel.
2. Install the hard drive carriers:
a. Open the hard drive latch (grasp the latch right side and pull it to the left).
b. Slide the hard drive carrier into the hard drive bay.
c. Close the hard drive latch; ensure that the hard drive carrier locks into place.
3. After the hard drive carriers are inserted, close and lock the bezel.
1 Hard Drive Bay 1: Install this drive first in a non-RAID 5 configuration
2 Hard Drive Bay 2
3 Hard Drive Bay 3
4 Hard Drive Bay 4
5 Hard Drive Bay 5
6 Hard Drive Bay 6
1 Hard Drive Bay 1: Not hot-swappable; contains operating system, install first
2 Hard Drive Bay 2
3 Hard Drive Bay 3
4 Hard Drive Bay 4
5 Hard Drive Bay 5: Optical DVD drive