Cooling shroud................................................................................................................................................................... 84
Removing the cooling shroud................................................................................................................................... 84
Installing the cooling shroud..................................................................................................................................... 85
Hot-swappable hard drives.............................................................................................................................................86
Removing a hard-drive blank.................................................................................................................................... 88
Installing a hard-drive blank...................................................................................................................................... 89
Cabled drives......................................................................................................................................................................94
Removing a cabled drive............................................................................................................................................96
Installing a cabled hard drive.................................................................................................................................... 98
Hard drive backplane...................................................................................................................................................... 100
Four-slot hard drive blank............................................................................................................................................. 105
System memory................................................................................................................................................................107
Mode-specific guidelines......................................................................................................................................... 109
Sample memory configurations...............................................................................................................................110
Removing memory modules..................................................................................................................................... 114
Installing memory modules....................................................................................................................................... 115
Cooling fans....................................................................................................................................................................... 116
Expansion card holder..................................................................................................................................................... 121
Expansion cards............................................................................................................................................................... 123
GPU card installation guidelines............................................................................................................................. 124
Removing an expansion card...................................................................................................................................124
Installing an expansion card.....................................................................................................................................126
Removing a GPU card...............................................................................................................................................127
Installing an optional GPU card.............................................................................................................................. 128
iDRAC port card (optional)............................................................................................................................................129
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