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Installing and Removing Hot-Swap Hard Drives
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Installing and Removing Hot-Swap Hard Drives
Caution: To maintain proper system cooling, use drive carriers with plastic drive blanks to
populate drive days that would be otherwise empty.
You can install either a 2.5” or a 3.5” drive into a 3.5” drive carrier. This section describes the
three cases of drive replacements:
• 3.5” drive into 3.5” drive carrier
• 2.5” drive into 3.5” drive carrier
• 2.5” drive into 2.5” drive carrier
Installing 3.5” Hard Disk Drive into 3.5” Hard Drive Carrier
To install a 3.5” drive into a 3.5” drive carrier, use the following steps.
1. Remove the drive carrier by pressing the green button and opening the lever.
See A in Figure 4-9.
2. Slide the carrier out.
See B in Figure 4-9.
Figure 4-9 Removing 3.5” HDD Carrier