Installing A Hot Swappable Hard Drive Carrier - Dell EMC NX430 System Owner's Manual

CAUTION: To prevent data loss, ensure that your operating system supports hot-swap drive installation. See the documentation
supplied with your operating system.
NOTE: Hot swappable hard drives are supplied in hot swappable hard drive carriers that fit in the hard drive slots.
Steps
1 Press the release button to open the hard drive carrier release handle.
2 Slide the hard drive carrier out of the hard drive slot.
CAUTION: To maintain proper system cooling, all empty hard drive slots must have hard drive carrier blanks installed.
Figure 16. Removing and installing a hot swappable hard drive carrier
1 release button
3 hard drive carrier handle
Next step
If you are not replacing the hard drive immediately, insert a hard drive carrier blank in the empty hard drive slot, or install a hard drive carrier.

Installing a hot swappable hard drive carrier

Prerequisites
CAUTION: Many repairs may only be done by a certified service technician. You should only perform troubleshooting and simple
repairs as authorized in your product documentation, or as directed by the online or telephone service and support team.
Damage due to servicing that is not authorized by Dell is not covered by your warranty. Read and follow the safety instructions
that are shipped with your product.
CAUTION: Use only hard drives that have been tested and approved for use with the hard drive backplane.
CAUTION: Combining SAS and SATA hard drives in the same RAID volume is not supported.
CAUTION: When installing a hard drive, ensure that the adjacent drives are fully installed. Inserting a hard 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: When a replacement hot swappable hard drive is installed and the system is powered on, the hard drive automatically
begins to rebuild. Make absolutely sure that the replacement hard drive is blank or contains data that you wish to have over-
written. Any data on the replacement hard drive is immediately lost after the hard drive is installed.
2 hard drive carrier
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